The Later Affluence of W. B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens

ISBN-13: 9780230296688 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 247 str.

Edward Clarke

Opis

The Great Interwar Crisis and the Collapse of Globalization is the first academic study, based upon multiarchival research, to challenge the standard narrative of interwar history. It reopens fundamental debates on the role of economics, political ideologies and racism in shaping the course of events that led from one World War to the next, and explains, for the first time, why the world economic and political systems simultaneously broke down between the wars. Explaining the direction of the causal relationship within this dual crisis, the book yields a new understanding of these events and their relativity to our present globalized world. The Great Interwar Crisis and the Collapse of Globalization raises profound questions abut the responsibility of Britain, the United States and the agents of international commerce and finance for the breakdown of the Versilles settlement after the First World War, the collapse of globalization, and events leading to the Second World War.

Recenzje

'The major strengths of this important and detailed study of two endlessly fascinating poets are its seriousness and ambition; its commitment to poetry and especially to a trained meditative slowness in reading poetry; its concern with the link between poetry and spirituality; its erudition and knowledge of relevant criticism; and its clear, spirited and nuanced style.'

- Michael O'Neill, Durham University, UK

'Later Affluence is a truly innovative book challenging what poetry criticism has become in these sceptical times. Clarke insists on dense, original close readings of two late poems by Yeats and two by Stevens to elaborate how these poems articulate a 'spiritual capability'. This capability is nourished by the capacity to take seriously and literally the space opened by conversation with tradition about what the literary imagination can do, and in so doing become identical with what it projects. To my knowledgeprevious readings of Stevens are only pale shadows of Clarke's unfolding of Stevens' visionary side; and there is nothing comparable in Yeats studies since Allen Grossman's brilliant efforts at a literal reading of The Wind Among the Reeds.'

- Charles Altieri, Berkeley, University of California, USA

'Edward Clarke is an ambitious, daring critic, who does not hesitate to deal in the spiritual dimensions opened up by his chosen poets; but he does so with a keen ear for verbal nuance and for the subtle force of literary influence.'

- Terence Brown, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Note on Texts Table of Abbreviations Prologue: 'Of the planet of which they were part' Yeats from The Tower to the Last Poems Stevens from Transport to Summer to the Last Poems 'Cuchulain Comforted' 'Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself' The Very Last Poems Epilogue: Songs of Sixpence Notes Bibliography Index

O autorze

EDWARD CLARKE tutors visiting students in English literature at St Catherine's College, Oxford University, UK. He has published work in the Wallace Stevens Journal, and contributed to Essays and Reflections on John Berryman (2006) and The Greenwood Encyclopaedia of American Poetry and Poetics (2006).