Words Alone Yeats and His Inheritances

Yeats is usually seen as a great modernist innovator. This book goes against the grain to explore the Irish literary traditions that preceded and influenced him--romantic 'national tales' in post-Union Ireland, the poetry and polemic of the Young Ireland movement, the occult novels of Sher...

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Main Author Foster, R. F
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford Oxford University Press, Incorporated 2011
Edition1
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English literature-19th century-History and criticism
English literature-Irish authors-History and criticism
English literature-Irish influences
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Ireland-Civilization-19th century
Yeats, W. B.-(William Butler),-1865-1939-Criticism and interpretation
Yeats, W. B.-(William Butler),-1865-1939-Sources
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Summary:Yeats is usually seen as a great modernist innovator. This book goes against the grain to explore the Irish literary traditions that preceded and influenced him--romantic 'national tales' in post-Union Ireland, the poetry and polemic of the Young Ireland movement, the occult novels of Sheridan LeFanu, and William Carleton's 'peasant fictions'.
ISBN:9780199592166
0199592160