Yeats and Pessoa - Parallel Poetic Styles

Informationen zum Autor Patricia Silva-McNeill Klappentext W. B. Yeats and Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) regarded style as a tool for metaphysical inquiry and! consequently! they adopted distinct poetic styles to convey different attitudes towards experience. Silva-McNeill's study examines how the poets' stylistic diversification was a means of rehearsing different existential and aesthetic stances. A very worthwhile study which demonstrates how two poets from small, peripheral European nations reflected the Zeitgeist of their times in poetry which posterity has come to regard as among the most important produced in either nation or language. -- Jean Andrews Modern Language Review 106.3, July 2011, 840-41 Zusammenfassung This monograph is the study of the poetry of Fernando Pessoa and W. B. Yeats within a comparative case studies framework. It examines Yeats's and Pessoa's use of stylistic variation to transform their incipient neo-Romantic and post-Symbolist diction into a protean modern lyric voice. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Post-Symbolist Style in the Early Poetry 2. Neo-Paganism and the Pastoral Style 3. Literary Nationalism and the Epic-Heroic Style 4. Dramatic Poetics 5. The Metaphysical Aesthetic 6. Conclusion

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• Authors: Patricia Silva McNeill, Patricia Silva-Mcneill, Silva-McNeill Patricia
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781906540562
• ISBN: 978-1-906540-56-2
• No. of pages: 194
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Portuguese, Literary studies: poetry and poets