Yeats The Poet: The Measures of Difference

ISBN-13: 9780745016290 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 238 str.

Edward Larrissy;Larrissy

Opis

Addresses Yeats's "antinomies", seeing their origin and structure in his divided Anglo-Irish inheritance and examining the notion of measure. The work also looks at the Blakean esoteric language of contrariety and outline which provided Yeats with the vocabulary of self-understanding.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction: Matter and Methodology; Part one The Matrix; Chapter 2 Matrix and Mean; Chapter 3 The Happy Shell and the Sad Shell; Chapter 4 Husks, Wandering and the Nation; Chapter 5 Rose, Mirror and Hem; Chapter 6 Fin-De-Siècle Fenianism: The Wind Among the Reeds; Part two Part Two The Measure; Chapter 7 The Masks of Difference; Chapter 8 Framing Ireland; Chapter 9 Reflections on Yeatsian Occultism; Part three Cracked Masonry; Chapter 10 Walls of The Tower; Chapter 11 Profane Perfection;

O autorze

Edward Larrissy is Professor of English at Queen's University, Belfast.