The last minstrels : Yeats and the revival of the bardic arts / Ronald Schuchard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schuchard, Ronald, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Yeats, W. B.

Bards and bardism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (474 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Recovering a lost literary movement that was the most consuming preoccupation of W.B. Yeats's literary life, Ronald Schuchard provides an historical, biographical, and critical reconstruction of the poet's attempt to restore an oral tradition by reviving the bardic arts of chanting and musical speech.

Contents:

Contents; Abbreviations; List of Illustrations; Preface; 1. Bardic Forefathers; 2. London Minstrels; 3. Dublin Minstrels; 4. Minstrels and Masquers; 5. Dancers and Choruses; 6. A Spiritual Democracy; 7. Minstrel Abroad; 8. "As Regarding Rhythm": Minstrels and Imagists; 9. Minstrels and Moderns; 10. The Last Minstrel; Appendix 1. Florence Farr, "The Chanting of Poems" (1905); Appendix 2. Florence Farr, "Music in Words" (1906); Appendix 3. Edmund Dulac, "Music and Poetry" (1937); Selected Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

1-383-03641-1

1-281-34125-8

9786611341251

0-19-152806-4

OCLC:

476245618