Our secret discipline : Yeats and lyric form / Helen Vendler.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vendler, Helen, 1933-2024.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

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

English literature--Irish authors--History and criticism.

English literature--Irish authors.

Lyric poetry--History and criticism.

Lyric poetry.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xvii, 428 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.

Contents:

I Lyric Form in Yeats's Poetry: Prophecy, Love, and Revolution 1

II Antechamber and Afterlife: Byzantium and the Delphic Oracle 27

III The Puzzle of Sequence; Two Political Poems 62

IV Magical Techniques in the Early Poems 90

V Tales, Feelings, Farewells: Three Stages of The Yeatsian Ballad 111

VI Troubling the Tradition: Yeats at Sonnets 147

VII The Nationalist Measure: Trimeter-Quatrain Poems 182

VIII Marches and the Examination of Conscience: The Tetrameter Line 205

IX The Medium of Instruction: Doctrine in Blank Verse 245

X The Renaissance Aura: Ottava Rima Poems 262

XI The Spacious Lyric: Long Stanzas, Irregular Lines 291

XIl Primitivism and the Grotesque: Supernatural Songs 318

XIII Rare Forms 347.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-418) and index.

ISBN:

9780674026957

0674026950

OCLC:

141188066