The Cambridge companion to W.B. Yeats / edited by Marjorie Howes, John Kelly.

"This accessible Companion explains and synthesises major themes of Yeats's life and work: his lifelong engagement with Ireland; his complicated relationship to the English literary tradition; his literary, social, and political criticism; and the evolution of his complex spiritual and rel...

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Other Authors: Howes, Marjorie Elizabeth, Kelly, John (John S.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Series:Cambridge companions to literature.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chronology of Yeats life.
  • Introduction / Marjorie Howes.
  • Yeats and romanticism / George Bornstein.
  • Yeats, Victorianism, and the 1890s / George Watson.
  • Yeats and modernism / Daniel Albright.
  • The later poetry / Helen Vendler.
  • Yeats and the drama / Bernard O'Donoghue.
  • Yeats and criticism / Declan Kiberd.
  • Yeats, folklore, and Irish legend / James Pethica.
  • Yeats and the occult / Margaret Mills Harper.
  • Yeats and gender / Elizabeth Butler Cullingford.
  • Yeats and politics / Jonathan Allison.
  • Yeats and the postcolonial / Marjorie Howes.