An important part of the national imaginary, Yeat’s work has helped to invent the nation of Ireland, while critiquing the modern state that emerged from it’s revolutionary period. This study offers a chronological account of Yeat’s volumes of poetry, contextualizing and analyzing them in light of Irish cultural and political history.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Romantic Ireland‘: The Early Poems and Plays Poems, Paintings, and the Newspaper: Nation and Class in Responsibilities Anglo-Irish Pastoral, War, and Revolution: The Wild Swans at Coole, Michael Robartes and the Dancer W. B. Yeats and the Angel of History: The Tower, The Winding Stair and Other Poems Modernism, Fascism, and Irish Nationalism: New Poems, Last Poems Taking Its Place among the Nations: Ireland and Irish Poetry after Yeats
Über den Autor
ANTHONY BRADLEY Professor of English at the University of Vermont, USA.