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Yeats and Modern Poetry
Edna Longley (Ed.)
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Description for Yeats and Modern Poetry
paperback. This book from renowned poetry critic Edna Longley presents fresh, dynamic perspectives on W. B. Yeats' enduring legacy. Num Pages: 263 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372.
Scholars and critics commonly align W. B. Yeats with Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and the modernist movement at large. This incisive study from renowned poetry critic Edna Longley argues that Yeats' presence and influence in modern poetry have been sorely misunderstood. Longley disputes the value of modernist critical paradigms and suggests alternative perspectives for interpreting Yeats - perspectives based on his own criticism, and on how Ireland shaped both his criticism and his poetry. Close readings of particular poems focus on structure, demonstrating how radically Yeats' approach to poetic form differs from that of Pound and Eliot. Longley discusses ... Read more
Scholars and critics commonly align W. B. Yeats with Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and the modernist movement at large. This incisive study from renowned poetry critic Edna Longley argues that Yeats' presence and influence in modern poetry have been sorely misunderstood. Longley disputes the value of modernist critical paradigms and suggests alternative perspectives for interpreting Yeats - perspectives based on his own criticism, and on how Ireland shaped both his criticism and his poetry. Close readings of particular poems focus on structure, demonstrating how radically Yeats' approach to poetic form differs from that of Pound and Eliot. Longley discusses ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
266
Condition
New
Number of Pages
263
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107622333
SKU
V9781107622333
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About Edna Longley (Ed.)
Edna Longley grew up in Dublin and was educated at Trinity College Dublin. For thirty-nine years she taught in the School of English at Queen's University Belfast, where she is now Professor Emerita. She is a Member of the Royal Irish Academy and a Fellow of the British Academy. Longley has written extensively on modern poetry, and is well known ... Read more
Reviews for Yeats and Modern Poetry
"Edna Longley’s Yeats and Modern Poetry is two books in one: it is a shrewd and luminous rereading of Yeats, and it is a powerful remapping of modern poetry, from Symbolism and Imagism to poetry of World War I, poetry of the 1930s, the Movement, and postwar northern Irish poetry. Yeats is illuminated as never before by being cast in ... Read more