W.b. Yeats and the Muses

Zusatztext Joseph Hassett's beautifully written study follows a strong yet subtle argument through widely researched and scrupulously detailed individual chapters. The Yeats who emerges from it is clearly driven by the needs of his work as a poet; to that end all others are subservient. Informationen zum Autor Joseph M. Hassett is a graduate of Harvard Law School and holds a doctorate in Anglo-Irish Literature from University College Dublin. He has written and lectured extensively on Yeats and other Irish writers. He lives and practices law in Washington, DC. He and his wife, Carol Melton, have two children, Matthew and Meredith. Klappentext This work explores how nine fascinating women inspired much of Yeats's poetry, shows how his perception of these women as Muses underlies his poetry. Zusammenfassung W.B. Yeats and the Muses explores how Yeats perceived the women to and about whom he wrote some of his greatest poetry in terms akin to the Greek notion that a poet is inspired and possessed by the feminine voices of the Muses. Newly available letters and manuscripts are used to examine the creative process and interpret the poems. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Abbreviations Manuscript Material Abbreviations Introduction I: White Woman That Passion Has Worn: Olivia Shakespear II: Where the Blessed Dance: Florence Farr III: The Apple on the Bough Most Out of Reach: Maud Gonne IV: The Living Beauty: Iseult Gonne V: Out of a Medium's Mouth: George Hyde-Lees VI: In Search of the Muse: Memories of Love and Lyrics for Imaginary People VII: A Foolish, Passionate Man: Margot Ruddock and Ethel Mannin VIII: Fury: Dorothy Wellesle IX: Golden Codger and Siren: Yeats and Edith Shackleton Heald Finale Endnotes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Joseph M. Hassett, Joseph M. (Independent Scholar) Hassett, Hassett Joseph M.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.08.2010
• EAN: 9780199582907
• ISBN: 978-0-19-958290-7
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology; Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik, Vereinigtes Königreich, Großbritannien, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Literature - Classics / Criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets