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The Poetry of W.B. Yeats

The Poetry of W.B. Yeats

Faherty, Michael

Hardcover

Series: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism, Book 78

Literary CriticismPoetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

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ISBN10: 1403946302
ISBN13: 9781403946300
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Mar 1 2005
Pages: 177
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

As W. H. Auden said to the ghost of Yeats in his famous elegy, when he died 'he became his admirers'. Not even Auden could have imagined just how prophetic that phrase would become. The battle over both Yeats' life and his poetry began almost immediately after his death, with some sides proudly claiming him as one of their very own, while others insisted he had never really been one of them at all.

To what tradition does Yeats belong? To what culture? Was he Irish or Anglo-Irish, or even English? Was he a Romantic, Symbolist or Modernist poet? A nationalist, fascist or a postnationalist? This Guide follows the often heated debates on who Yeats was and what kind of poetry he wrote. Michael Faherty offers selections from the leading voices in these debates, setting them in the context of Irish cultural and political history.

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