Words Alone Yeats and His Inheritances

• Main Author: Foster, R. F
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press, Incorporated 2011
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: 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

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...

Table of Contents:

• Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1 National Tales and National Futures in Ireland and Scotland after 1800 -- 2 The First Romantics: Young Irelands between Catholic Emancipation and the Famine -- 3 Lost in the Big House: Anglo-Irishry and the Uses of the Supernatural -- 4 Oisin Comes Home: Yeats as Inheritor -- Notes -- Works Cited and Consulted -- Sources for Illustrations -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y