Reader''s Guide to Yeats''s a Vision

W. B. Yeats is one of the most important writers in English of the twentieth century, and the system of A Vision is generally recognized as fundamental to the power and achievement of his later poetry. Yet this strange mixture of esoteric geometry, lunar symbolism, and sweeping generalization has proven frustrating to generations of readers, who have found it obscure in both matter and presentation. This book helps readers to approach and understand the origins, structure, and implications of the system. Concentrating on the 1937 revised edition of A Vision, the treatment is divided into major topic areas with several levels a general

Summary

W. B. Yeats’s A Vision is notoriously dense. This book provides an authoritative, clear and straightforward guide to the system of A Vision, the framework within which he created many of his most important works.

Product details

• Authors: Neil Mann, NEIL MANN
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2022
• EAN: 9781802070309
• ISBN: 978-1-80207-030-9
• No. of pages: 408
• Series: Clemson University Press; Clemson University Press w/ LUP
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies