Yeats's poetry in the making : sing whatever is well made / Wayne K. Chapman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chapman, Wayne K.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Yeats, W. B.

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

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Criticism, Textual.

Physical Description:

xx, 358 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke, Hampshire [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Summary:

This book traces the creative process in Yeats's writing, in his making and remaking of verse, and in the development of a whole body of work during the last forty years of his life. Lyrical and philosophical poetry, verse-drama, the shifting contexts of personal and political events -including controversy, world and civil war, and a large dose of artistic experimentation - are all dealt with here. The book is illustrated and loaded with unpublished material, including the extant remains of Yeats's ambitious but unfinished 'fifth play for dancers', based on the local legends of Ballylee that Yeats made his own. The book addresses overlooked or inadequately presented findings in Yeats studies and brings to light much wholly new matter, including a comprehensive 'Chronology' of the composition of poems, the first since Ellmann's The Identity of Yeats. The book welcomes newcomers interested in detailed narratives about poetry 'well-made' and life well-lived.

Contents:

"Poetic themes are plants that grow" : the process of making and remaking verse

The "Countess Cathleen row" of 1899, later revisions, and Poems (1901-1929)

The annotated responsibilities : errors in the Variorum edition and a new reading of the genesis of two poems, "on those that hated "the playboy of the western world," 1907" and "the new faces"

Yeats's displaced rebellion poems and the great war : the case of The wild swans at Coole and Michael Robartes and the dancer

Guardians of the tower and stream : Yeats's unfinished fifth play for dancers, 1918-1923

The Miltonic crux of "the phases of the moon" and "news for the delphic oracle"

Blake, Swedenborg, and A vision : a case for recombinate influence

"The municipal gallery re-visited" and its writing

W.B. and George Yeats : the writing, editing, and dating of Yeats's poems of the mid-1920s and 1930s.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-344) and index.

ISBN:

9780230271913

023027191X

OCLC:

670324852