W. B. Yeats and the Language of Sculpture

A study of the relationship between literature and sculpture in the work of W. B. Yeats that draws on an extensive range of unpublished archival materials from the poet's early career in the late Victorian period, and across his entire oeuvre of poetry, plays, and critical writing.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: An Art School Education


• 2: The Politics of Public Monuments in Dublin


• 3: Senator Yeats and the Free State Coinage


• 4: Pound, Vorticism, and the Sculpture of Brancusi


• 5: Yeats's Late Sculptural Poetics


• Coda: Yeats's Epitaphs


• Appendix


• Bibliography

About the author

Jack Quin is a British Academy postdoctoral fellow in the Department of English Literature at the University of Birmingham. Before joining the department, he was a Government of Ireland fellow at Trinity College Dublin. He has published work on W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, John Hewitt, and others.

Summary

A study of the relationship between literature and sculpture in the work of W. B. Yeats that draws on an extensive range of unpublished archival materials from the poet's early career in the late Victorian period, and across his entire oeuvre of poetry, plays, and critical writing.

Product details

• Authors: Jack Quin, Jack (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow Quin
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9780192843159
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284315-9
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, ART / Sculpture & Installation, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, sculpture, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets