The subject of Yeats s politics is one that his various biographers have failed to examine. This fascinating and original look at the complex political life of one of the world s most renowned poets attempts to redress the balance."
The subject of Yeats s politics is one that his various biographers have failed to examine. This fascinating and original look at the complex politica...
Irish literature in English commands world-wide respect, but it is rarely discussed in a comparative light. This study of the making and unmaking of character commences with Balzac's impact on nineteenth-century Irish fiction. Sheridan Le Fanu links Balzac and Swedenborg to Yeats, and anticipates Elizabeth Bowen's deployment of ghost story conventions in the 1940s. Through painterly imagery, biblical quotation and the distortion of proper names, Le Fanu shows character to be a self-consuming project. Yeats's Parnell emerges as a modernist gothic hero of the 1930s. Bowen's The heat of the day...
Irish literature in English commands world-wide respect, but it is rarely discussed in a comparative light. This study of the making and unmaking of c...
