This introduction to one of the twentieth century's most important writers examines Yeats's poems, plays and stories in relation to biographical, literary, and historical contexts. Yeats wrote with passion and eloquence about personal disappointments, his obsession with Ireland, and the modern era's loss of faith in traditional beliefs about art, religion, empire, social class, gender and sex. His works uniquely reflect the gradual transition from Victorian aestheticism to the modernism of Pound, Eliot and Joyce. This is the first introductory study to consider his work in all genres in light of the latest biographies, new editions of his letters and manuscripts, and recent accounts by feminist and postcolonial critics. While using this introduction, students will have instant access to the world of current Yeats scholarship as well as being provided with the essential facts about his life and literary career and suggestions for further reading.
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This introduction to one of the twentieth century's most important writers examines Yeats's poems, plays and stories in relation to biographical, literary, and historical contexts. While using this introduction, students will have instant access to the essential facts about his life and literary career and suggestions for further reading.
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Lady Gregory, Maud Gonne, Michael Robartes, The Wind Among the Reeds, The Secret Rose, King Goll, Golden Dawn, Rosa Alchemica, World War, Last Poems, Olivia Shakespear, The King's Threshold, The Wanderings of Oisin, Adam's Curse, Easter Rising, John Butler Yeats, Happy Shepherd, Home Rule, The Wild Swans, Thoor Ballylee, Time of Civil War, Under Ben Bulben, Celtic Twilight, Crazy Jane, Northern Ireland New!
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Lady Gregory, Maud Gonne, Michael Robartes, The Wind Among the Reeds, The Secret Rose, King Goll, Golden Dawn, Rosa Alchemica, World War, Last Poems, Olivia Shakespear, The King's Threshold, The Wanderings of Oisin, Adam's Curse, Easter Rising, John Butler Yeats, Happy Shepherd, Home Rule, The Wild Swans, Thoor Ballylee, Time of Civil War, Under Ben Bulben, Celtic Twilight, Crazy Jane, Northern Ireland New!
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- The Secret Rose by B. W. Yeats on 16 pages
- The Countess Cathleen by William Butler Yeats on 11 pages
- The Winding Stair and Other Poems by William Butler Yeats on 11 pages
- Michael Robartes and the Dancer by W. B. Yeats on 11 pages
- In the Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age by W. B. Yeats on 10 pages
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