Serious poetry form and authority from Yeats to Hill Peter McDonald

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McDonald, Peter, 1962-

Contributor:

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

Hill, Geoffrey

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Yeats, W. B.

Hill, Geoffrey--Criticism and interpretation.

Hill, Geoffrey.

English poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

English poetry.

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

Authority in literature.

Literary form.

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

English poetry--Irish authors.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Oxford Clarendon Press ©2002

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this history, it is the authority of poetry (and not the media-processed poet) which is at stake in the integrity of poetic form. The book offers a controversial reading of 20th-century British and Irish poetry centred on six figures all of whom are critics as well as poets

Contents:

1. R̀ather than words': The End of Authority?

2. Yeats and Remorse

3. Yeats's Poetic Structures

4. Three Critics: T.S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill

5. One of Us: Eliot, Auden, and Four Quartets

6. Yeats, Form, and Northern Irish Poetry

7. Louis MacNeice's Posterity

8. The Pitch of Dissent: Geoffrey Hill

Notes:

Originally published: Oxford : Clarendon, 2002. Reprinted 2006, 2007

Includes bibliographical references and index

Print version record

Other Format:

Print version McDonald, Peter, 1962- Serious poetry

ISBN:

9780199247479

0199247471

1281341622

9781281341624

9780191714542

0191714542

0191567272

9780191567278

9786611341626

6611341625

OCLC:

646747875

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