Yeats and Modern Poetry

Informationen zum Autor 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 for her association, as critic, with the poetic movement in Northern Ireland since the 1960s. Her books include The Living Stream: Literature and Revisionism in Ireland (1994), Poetry and Posterity (2000) and her edition, Edward Thomas: The Annotated Collected Poems (2008). She has co-edited (with Peter Mackay and Fran Brearton) Modern Irish and Scottish Poetry (2011) and (with Fran Brearton) Incorrigibly Plural: Louis MacNeice and his Legacy (2012). Klappentext This book from renowned poetry critic Edna Longley presents fresh, dynamic perspectives on W. B. Yeats' enduring legacy. Zusammenfassung Scholars and critics commonly align W. B. Yeats with the poetry of 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Ireland as audience: 'To write for my own race'; 2. Yeats and American modernism; 3. Intricate trees: the survival of symbolism; 4. 'Monstrous familiar images': poetry and war 1914-23; 5. Yeats's other island; Postscript; Notes; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Edna Longley, Edna (Queen''s University Belfast) Longley, Longley Edna
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.11.2013
• EAN: 9781107009851
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00985-1
• No. of pages: 268
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets