The Gaiety of Language : An Essay on the Radical Poetics of W. B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens / Frank Lentricchia.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lentricchia, Frank, author.

Series:

Perspectives in criticism ; Volume 19.

Perspectives in Criticism Series ; Volume 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics, Modern--20th century.

Aesthetics, Modern.

Poetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1968]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1968.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

1. Introduction

2. Four Types of Nineteenth-Century Poetic

3. The Explicit Poetics of W. B. Yeats

4. Implicit Poetics and the Transmutation of Doctrine: Contexts of Byzantium

5. The Explicit Poetics of Wallace Stevens

6. The Explicit Poetics of Wallace Stevens

7. Artifice as Value

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780520315631

0520315634

OCLC:

1149421350