Shakespeare and the Modern Poet

Informationen zum Autor Neil Corcoran is King Alfred Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool. Klappentext An original study of the influence of Shakespeare on twentieth-century poets, and of intertextual relations among those poets.In this provocative new view of poetic interrelationship, Neil Corcoran uncovers the relationships - combative as well as sympathetic - between Yeats, Eliot, Auden, Hughes and Plath, as they are intertwined in these poets' engagements with Shakespeare. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Yeats's Shakespeare: 1. Setting a sail for shipwreck: Yeats's Shakespeare criticism; 2. Myself must I remake: Shakespeare in Yeats's poetry; Part II. Eliot's Shakespeare: 3. That man's scope: Eliot's Shakespeare criticism; 4. This man's gift: Shakespeare in Eliot's poetry; Part III. Auden's Shakespeare: 5. A plenum of experience: Auden's Shakespeare criticism; 6. The reality of the mirror: Shakespeare in Auden's poetry; Part IV. Ted Hughes's Shakespeare: 7. A language of the common bond; 8. The Shakespearean moment; 9. Survivor of cease: Shakespeare and Sylvia Plath in Ted Hughes's poems.

Product details

• Authors: Neil Corcoran, Neil (University of Liverpool) Corcoran
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2010
• EAN: 9780521199827
• ISBN: 978-0-521-19982-7
• No. of pages: 254
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, Literature & literary studies, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Poetry by individual poets, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism, Shakespeare Plays, Literary studies: plays and playwrights