William Butler Yeats / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

Series:

Modern critical views

Modern critical views.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939--Criticism and interpretation.

Yeats, W. B.

Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

viii, 232 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Chelsea House Publishers, 1986.

Summary:

-- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights-- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary writers

Contents:

The player queen / Helen Vendler

"Leda and the swan" as model / Priscilla Washburn Shaw

Poet of Anglo-Ireland / Thomas R. Whitaker

Rhythm and pattern in Autobiographies / Ian Fletcher

"The moods", tradition as emotion / Allen R. Grossman

Oscar and Oisin / Richard Ellmann

Toward A vision, per amica silentia lunae ; A vision, the dead and history / Harold Bloom

Yeat's theater / Denis Donoghue / "But now I add another thought" / Herbert J. Levine

Imagery in Yeats / Paul de Man

Yeats : the linguistic moment / J. Hillis Miller.

Notes:

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 217-220.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

ISBN:

0877547009

OCLC:

12908338