W B Yeats A Critical Introduction

Author : Stan Smith
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0389209031

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W.B. Yeats by Stan Smith Pdf

An original, yet lucid and accessible introduction to the often difficult poetry of W.B. Yeats. No poet in this century has shaped his work so directly out of reaction to the history of his times. Yeats's antithetical vision, his fascination with conflict, energy, turbulence and the bodiliness of being, his sense of poetry as a dramatic process, indicate how closely bound up are the stylistic and the thematic dimensions of his art. As a poet of carnality as much as of politics, Yeats is unexcelled. The aim of this book is to show what an exciting writer he is, to reveal the relevance and contemporaneity of his work, even in its more esoteric aspects, and to make its study less intimidating than it can sometimes seem.

Author : Balachandra Rajan
Publisher : London : Hutchinson
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : IND:32000003008986

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W.B. Yeats: a Critical Introduction by Balachandra Rajan Pdf

Author : William Butler Yeats
Publisher : Red Globe Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1988-07-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780333456613

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Poems of W.B. Yeats: A New Selection by William Butler Yeats Pdf

This selection of 239 poems is supported by a critical introduction, very full explanatory notes, a bibliographical summary of Yeats's life, maps, a glossary of Irish names and places and their pronunciation and a bibliography. For this second edition, the notes have been thoroughly revised and updated.

Author : Terence Brown
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780631182986

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The Life of W. B. Yeats by Terence Brown Pdf

W. B. Yeats is widely regarded as the greatest English-language poet of the twentieth century. This new critical biography seeks to tell the story of his life as it unfolded in the various contexts in which Yeats worked as an artist and as public figure.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410350947

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A Study Guide for William Butler Yeats's "Leda and the Swan" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

A Study Guide for William Butler Yeats's "Leda and the Swan," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.

Author : Sunil Kumar Sarker
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8171566472

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W.B. Yeats by Sunil Kumar Sarker Pdf

J.M. Cohen Wrote That Yeats Was The Greatest Figure In English Poetry Since The Death Of Tennyson , And Ezra Pound, Who Once Went To Yeats To Learn How To Write Poetry, Wrote About Him : I Dare Say ... That Up To Date No One Has Shown Any Disposition To Supersede Him As The Best Poet In England Or Any Likelihood Of Doing So For Some Time... Yeats Is A Very Complex And Difficult Poet, Because There Is In Him A Curious Intermixture Of Romanticism, Realism, Mythology, Supernaturalism, Magic, Ocultism, Automatic Writing, Nationalism, Private Philosophy , And Even Prejudices. His Poems Are Very Compact, Allowing No Elaborations, And Leaving Gaps For The Reader To Imaginatively Fill Them Up, And Thus Making Them More Difficult. Great Explicators And Commentators Have, Of Course, Come Forward, But They Themselves, Sometimes, Are Either Difficult Or Not Enough. Therefore, The One Single Objective Of This Book Is To Introduce The Poet To The General Reader In An Easy Manner.To Give An Idea Of The Poet, As Many As Forty-One Poems, Selected From His Four Stages Of Poetic Development, Have Been Explained (And All Those Poems Have Been Quoted In Full). Yeats Had Also A Métier For Drama, And Had Been A Pioneer Of One Act Plays, And Wrote No Fewer Than Thirty Plays. And So Yeats Has Also Been Discussed As A Dramatist, And, In Addition, Eight Of His Plays Have Been Discussed At Some Length.

Author : Edward Larrissy
Publisher : Northcote House Pub Limited
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780746312889

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W.B. Yeats by Edward Larrissy Pdf

An up-to-date account of one of the major poets in the English language of the past two centuries, this book not only introduces the reader to contemporary themes in Yeats criticism, but also provides a unified interpretation based on Yeats's ambivalent sense of identity as a nationalist conscious of the Anglo-Irish tradition from which he claimed

Author : Snezana Dabic
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443884891

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W.B. Yeats and Indian Thought by Snezana Dabic Pdf

This book presents an in-depth study of the influence of Indian philosophical and religious thought on W.B. Yeats’s poetic and dramatic work. It traces the development of this influence and inspiration from Yeats’s early impressionistic work to the mature and elaborate incorporation of Indian ideas into the structure, themes and symbolism of his writing. It recognizes the importance of his Indian friendships, Indian essays, and shows the limits of his Indianness. While providing a comprehensive analysis of Yeats’s poetry and his bizarre poetic play, The Herne’s Egg, from an Eastern perspective, the book examines how Indian philosophical concepts guided Yeats in constructing his characters, imagery, and symbology, and in shaping the structure of his dramatic narrative. Yeats’s liminal positioning between Orientalism and Celticism, Irish nationalism and British imperialism, and his heterogenous literary aspirations and modernist poetic idiom are probed and explored in order to position him on a pendulum of postcolonial debate. The focus in this book is on the aesthetic appreciation of the parts of Yeats’s creative opus where he engaged with Eastern thought, with genuine interest and enthusiasm, when the pendulum swings towards Yeats being a mythopoetic and anticolonial writer.

Author : Warwick Gould
Publisher : Springer
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349119165

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Yeats Annual No. 10 by Warwick Gould Pdf

Yeats Annual No. 10 finds new thresholds and margins in Yeats's thought and work. It concentrates upon his plays, his occult concerns with spiritualism and the Irish belief in an otherworld, and closely examines certain aspects of his textual state and the borders of his canon. 'The admirable Yeats Annual ... a powerful base of biographical and textual knowledge. Since 1982 the vade mecum of ... Yeats ... full of interest'. Bernard O'Donoghue, The Times Literary Supplement

Author : Forrest Reid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015020683143

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W. B. Yeats by Forrest Reid Pdf

An excellent survey of the work of the greatest Irish poet of his time. Includes chapters on Early Poems, The Lyrical Dramas, Prose Tales & Sketches, Plays for an Irish Theatre, Philosophy, The Later Lyrics & a Bibliography.

Author : M.P. Sinha
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Dist
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8126903007

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W.b. YeatsHis Poetry And Politics by M.P. Sinha Pdf

Although Politics Is Supposed To Be Something Dirty That Will Contaminate The Otherwise Pure Stream Of Poetry, All Great Poets Right From The Days Of Homer Have Dealt With Political Events Covertly Or Overtly. Born In The Second Half Of The Nineteenth Century When Irish Nationalism Was Reaching Its Peak, Yeats, Under The Influence Of His Father And The Irish Leader John Butt, Became A Nationalist. His Nationalism And Direct Involvement In Politics Deepened Under The Influence Of The Fenian Leader John O Leary.No Doubt, Yeats S Poetry Shows The Influence Of Spenser, Blake, Shelley, French Symbolism And Western And Indian Philosophy, It Was The Irish Politics That Shaped His Thought And Poetry To The Greatest Extent.W.B. Yeats: His Poetry And Politics Traces Yeats S Growth As A Poet In The Politics Of His Time. The Conclusion Is: Although Poetry Remained His Main Objective It Was Not The Goal; Autonomous In Existence It Was A Means To Achieve Unity Of Culture And Unity Of Being.The Book Will Be Immense Value For Students, Researchers And Teachers Of Modern English Poetry.

Author : Balachandra Rajan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134882304

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W. B. Yeats by Balachandra Rajan Pdf

This chief aim of this title, first published in 1965, is to present a comprehensive picture of Yeats’s achievement and some of the means for an evaluation of that achievement. To this end both the poems and plays have been examined and some of Yeats’s critical ideas have been briefly discussed. Professor Rajan’s study provides a compact introduction to Yeats’s work, and will be of interest to the general reader as well as to students of literature.

Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781410347329

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A Study Guide for William Butler Yeats's "The Wild Swans at Coole" by Gale, Cengage Learning Pdf

Author : Daniel Tompsett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429885037

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Unlocking the Poetry of W. B. Yeats by Daniel Tompsett Pdf

Unlocking the Poetry of W.B. Yeats undertakes a thorough re-reading of Yeats' oeuvre as an extended meditation on the image and theme of the heart as it is evident within the poetry. It places the heart at the centre of a complex web of Yeatsian preoccupations and associations—from the biographical, to the poetic and philosophical, to the mythological and mystical. In particular, the book seeks to unlock Yeats’ mystifying aesthetic vision via his understanding of the ancient Egyptian "Weighing of the Heart" ceremony. The work provides a chronological narrative arc that looks to use the theme of the heart as it recurs in the poetry in order to circumvent and overcome more established frameworks. Its purpose is to offer refreshing ways of conceptualizing and building alternatives to more deeply entrenched, but not entirely satisfactory arguments that have been offered since Yeats' death in 1939, while demonstrating the centrality of the occult to Yeats' art.

Author : Özlem Saylan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781527526266

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The Gyroscopic Transformation of Self Quest in W. B. Yeats’s Poetry by Özlem Saylan Pdf

Carrying a story to tell is the “ancient burden” of craftsmen, and it is one of the characteristics of the quest to find oneself, since a journey requires recognition of the aspects of self and anti–self. Like the speaker of his poems, W.B. Yeats has something to tell. His poetry draws nourishment from the battle between the dichotomies of self and anti–self, human and divine, mind and intellect, past and present, and body and soul. This book covers a selection of Yeats’s poems from 1889 to 1939, discussing them within the frame of the quest to find oneself and its gyroscopic transformation. The book illustrates that self is not a single entity, but has multiple layers, and it can be found within the quest in which it experiences a simultaneous transformation with every phase of the antithetical structure of gyroscopic movements. In addition, the way of the quest is cyclical; however, it is not a vicious cycle, since, in life, every end is a phase of a beginning and every beginning is a phase of an end.