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. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1: Bardic Forefathers 2: London Minstrels 3: Dublin Minstrels 4: Minstrels and Masquers 5: Dancers and Choruses 6: A Spiritual Democracy 7: Minstrel Abroad 8: 'As Regarding Rhythm': Minstrels and Imagists 9: Modern Minstrels 10: The Last Minstrel Appendix 1: Florence Farr, 'The Chanting of Poems' (1905) Appendix 2: Florence Farr, 'Music and Words' (1906) Appendix 3: Edmund Dulac, 'Music and Poetry' (1937)

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• Authors: Ronald Schuchard, Ronald (Goodrich C. White of English and Irish Studies Schuchard, Ronald (Goodrich C. White Professor of Schuchard, Ronald (Goodrich C. White Professor of English and Irish Studies Schuchard
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.11.2010
• EAN: 9780199596508
• ISBN: 978-0-19-959650-8
• No. of pages: 500
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries