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The Cambridge companion to W.B. Yeats / edited by Marjorie Howes, John Kelly.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cambridge companions to literature.
- Cambridge companions to literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939--Criticism and interpretation.
- Yeats, W. B.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 242 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This accessible and thought-provoking Companion is designed to help students experience the pleasures and challenges offered by one of the twentieth century's greatest poets. A team of international contributors examine Yeats's poetry, drama and prose in their historical and national contexts. The essays explain and synthesise major aspects and themes of his life and work: his lifelong engagement with Ireland, his complicated relationship to the English literary tradition, his literary, social, and political criticism and the evolution of his complex spiritual and religious sense. First-time readers of Yeats as well as more advanced scholars will welcome this comprehensive account of Yeats's career with its useful chronological outline and survey of the most important trends in Yeats scholarship. Taken as a whole, this Companion comprises an essential introduction for students and teachers of Yeats.
- Contents:
- Chronology of Yeats life.
- Introduction / Marjorie Howes.
- Yeats and romanticism / George Bornstein.
- Yeats, Victorianism, and the 1890s / George Watson.
- Yeats and modernism / Daniel Albright.
- The later poetry / Helen Vendler.
- Yeats and the drama / Bernard O'Donoghue.
- Yeats and criticism / Declan Kiberd.
- Yeats, folklore, and Irish legend / James Pethica.
- Yeats and the occult / Margaret Mills Harper.
- Yeats and gender / Elizabeth Butler Cullingford.
- Yeats and politics / Jonathan Allison.
- Yeats and the postcolonial / Marjorie Howes.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).
- ISBN:
- 1-107-48079-5
- 1-107-48513-4
- 1-139-00103-5
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