The Last Minstrels - Yeats and the Revival of the Bardic Arts

Zusatztext this graceful and scholarly book affirmsthe importance of music and the great 'other' in Yeat's imagination. Informationen zum Autor Ronald Schuchard is Goodrich C. White Professor of English at Emory University. He has written widely on modern literature, particularly on W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot. He is a former director of the Yeats International Summer School in Sligo and has co-edited three volumes of The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats (OUP). He has edited Eliot's Clark and Turnball Lectures as The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry (Faber), and he is author of the award-winning Eliot's Dark Angel (OUP). In 2006 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to begin editing the multi-volume Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot. Klappentext Recovering a lost literary movement that was the most consuming preoccupation of W. B. Yeats's literary life, Ronald Schuchard's book provides an historical, biographical, and critical reconstruction of the poet's attempt to restore an oral tradition by reviving the bardic arts of chanting and musical speech. Zusammenfassung Recovering a lost literary movement that was the most consuming preoccupation of W. B. Yeats's literary life, Ronald Schuchard's book provides an historical, biographical, and critical reconstruction of the poet's attempt to restore an oral tradition by reviving the bardic arts of chanting and musical speech.

Product details

• Authors: Ronald Schuchard, Ronald (Goodrich C. White Professor of English and Irish Studies Schuchard, Schuchard Ronald
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.05.2008
• EAN: 9780199230006
• ISBN: 978-0-19-923000-6
• No. of pages: 447
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, English, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, ART / Performance, Theatre Studies, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Performance Art, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000