Yeats as Precursor: Readings in Irish, British and American Poetry

by S. Matthews

Overview

As both a late Romantic and a modern, W.B. Yeats has proved to be perhaps the most influential poet of the early twentieth-century. In this original study Steven Matthews traces, through close readings of significant poems, the flow of Yeatsian influence across time and cultural space. By engaging with the formalist criticism of Harold Bloom and Paul de Man in their dialogues with Jacques Derrida, he also considers Yeats's significance as the founding presence within the major poetry criticism of the century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333711477
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/27/2000
Edition description:	2000
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Steven Matthews is Senior Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Yeats: Influence, Tradition, and the Problematics of Reading 'The Terror of His Vision': Yeats and Irish Poetry Inevitable Abstractions: Yeats and British Poetry Possession and Dispossession: Yeats and American Poetry Select Bibliography Index

Editorial Reviews

'...a thorough and highly engaged reading of contemporary Irish poetry from the outbreak of the 'Troubles' to the present day.... a very useful volume indeed.' - Glen Hooper, The Lecturer

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