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W.B Yeats (2nd ed) (Writers and Their Work)
Edward Larrissy
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Description for W.B Yeats (2nd ed) (Writers and Their Work)
Paperback. Series: Writers & Their Work S. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 166.
Contemporary scholarship about W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) is increasingly clear about the implications of his being a nationalist from a Protestant background. He always felt a degree of distance from his Catholic compatriots, while at the same time believing that his own background offered him relative freedom to interpret Ireland’s pre-Christian traditions and mythology. This study shows how Yeats moved from passionate identification with the idea of Ireland in his early work, through a period in which he re-emphasizes his Anglo-Irish inheritance and its difference from that of Catholics, to a new sense of unity in his later work, founded on ... Read more
Contemporary scholarship about W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) is increasingly clear about the implications of his being a nationalist from a Protestant background. He always felt a degree of distance from his Catholic compatriots, while at the same time believing that his own background offered him relative freedom to interpret Ireland’s pre-Christian traditions and mythology. This study shows how Yeats moved from passionate identification with the idea of Ireland in his early work, through a period in which he re-emphasizes his Anglo-Irish inheritance and its difference from that of Catholics, to a new sense of unity in his later work, founded on ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Northcote House Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
Writers & Their Work S.
Condition
New
Number of Pages
136
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780746312889
SKU
V9780746312889
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About Edward Larrissy
Edward Larrissy is Emeritus Professor of Poetry in the Queen’s University of Belfast, where he chairs the Advisory Board of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry. His published works include Yeats the Poet: The Measures of Difference (1994), Blake and Modern Literature (2006), and The Blind and Blindness in Literature of the Romantic Period (2007). He has also edited, among ... Read more
Reviews for W.B Yeats (2nd ed) (Writers and Their Work)
Larrissy's readings of the poems are illuminating - ' Irish Studies Review