The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats: Volume V: 1908-1910

ISBN-13: 9780198126881 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 1296 str.

John Kelly; Ronald Schuchard

Opis

After the death of Algernon Swinburne in April 1909 Yeats announced to his sister that he was now 'King of the Cats'. Yet he was far less sure of himself than this boast suggests. This volume tracks Yeats's unrelenting but often agonised attempts to redefine his positon as a poet in a time of aesthetic and personal transition and uncertainty.

Recenzje

It would be difficult to over-estimate the importance of this project to studies in Yeats and Ango-Irish literature. Most of the letters in this volume have never before been published and none have had the benefit of such extraordinarily careful and detailed scholarly examination. Certainly the hurrahs that greeted the arrival of the first volume may justifiably be repeated for this one.

O autorze

John Kelly is Emeritus Research Fellow in Engilsh at Oxford University, and the general editor of The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats. Ronald Schuchard, Goodrich C. White Professor of English and Irish Studies, Emeritus, Emory University, is the award-winning author of Eliot's Dark Angel (OUP 1999) and The Last Minstrels: Yeats and the Revival of the Bardic Arts (OUP 2008). The editor of T. S. Eliot's Clark and Turnbull lectures, The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry (Faber 1993), he is co-editor with John Kelly of The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats, Volume 3 (1994) and Volume 4 (2005), which received the Modern Language Association's Morton N. Cohen Award for a Distinguished Edition of Letters. He is general editor of The Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot: The Critical Edition in eight volumes (Faber and Johns Hopkins), Volume 2 (2014) of which won the Modernist Studies Association's award for a distinguished edition. A former Guggenheim fellow, he is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.