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Author: Marjorie Elizabeth Howes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-05-25
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0521650895
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive and accessible introduction to the major themes of this important poet's life and career.
Author: Neil Corcoran
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-12-13
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 113982810X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe last century was characterised by an extraordinary flowering of the art of poetry in Britain. These specially commissioned essays by some of the most highly regarded poetry critics offer a stimulating and reliable overview of English poetry of the twentieth century. The opening section on contexts will both orientate readers relatively new to the field and provide provocative syntheses for those already familiar with it. Following the terms introduced by this section, individual chapters cover many ways of looking at the 'modern', the 'modernist' and the 'postmodern'. The core of the volume is made up of extensive discussions of individual poets, from W. B. Yeats and W. H. Auden to contemporary poets such as Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy. In its coverage of the development, themes and contexts of modern poetry, this Companion is the most useful guide available for students, lecturers and readers.
Author: Gerald Dawe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 473
ISBN-13: 1108420354
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fresh, accessible and authoritative study that conveys the richness and diversity of Irish poets, their lives and times.
Author: Suheil B. Bushrui
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780389209058
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContents: Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Yeats's Life; A Brief Outline of Irish History; A Note on the Text; A Note on the Spelling of Gaelic Names; General Commentary; Brief Notes on Style and Metre; Symbolism: The DanceróThe SwanóThe ToweróThe Gyre; Magic, Myth and Legend; Nationalism and Politics; The Poet's Vision; History and Civilization; People; Places; Summaries; Summaries and Commentaries on Single Poems and Summaries of the Poetry Collections 1889-1939 as listed in Collected Poems; Suggestions for Further Reading; Title Index of Poems Summarized; Index of First Lines of Poems Summarized; General Index.
Author: Joseph N. Cleary
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-08-11
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 1107031419
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to Irish modernism, offering readers an accessible overview of key writers and artists.
Author: David Holdeman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-12-17
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781107456808
DOWNLOAD EBOOKW. B. Yeats is a writer who requires, and at the same time tests the limits of, contextual study. More than perhaps any other Irish writer, he produced his own context as much as it produced him. His cultural and political activities, combined with his prolific literary output, made an impact that can only be understood by close attention to his words in relation to the times in which he lived. W. B. Yeats in Context maps Yeats' world in concise, lively essays by distinguished critics and historians. The places, people, themes and intellectual frameworks most important to his development receive close attention, as do his artistic influences, and the production and reception of his work. As a gateway into the study of Yeats, this volume offers much new information for both students, scholars and anyone interested in the life and times of this enigmatic and influential poet.
Author: Alex Davis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-07-19
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1139827642
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Companion offers the most comprehensive overview available of modernist poetry, its forms, its major authors and its contexts. The first part explores the historical and cultural contexts and sexual politics of literary modernism and the avant garde. The chapters in the second part concentrate on individual authors and movements, while the concluding part offers a comprehensive overview of the early reception and subsequent canonisation of modernist poetry. As well as insightful readings of canonical poets, the Companion features extended discussions of poets whose importance is now being increasingly recognised, such as Mina Loy, poets of the Harlem Renaissance, and postcolonial poets in the Caribbean, Africa and India. While modernist poets are often thought of as difficult, these essays will help students to understand and enjoy their experimental, playful and fascinating responses to contemporary social and cultural change and their dialogue with the arts and with each other.
Author: Peter Howarth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-11-10
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 1139502328
DOWNLOAD EBOOKModernist poems are some of the twentieth-century's major cultural achievements, but they are also hard work to read. This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. In-depth chapters on Pound, Eliot, Yeats and the American modernists outline how formal experiments take on the new world of mass media, democracies, total war and changing religious belief. Chapters on the avant-gardes and later modernism examine how their styles shift as they try to re-make the community of readers. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English.
Author: Walter Kalaidjian
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-04-28
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780521829953
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginal essays by twelve distinguished international scholars offer critical overviews of the major genres, literary culture, and social contexts that define the current state of scholarship. This Companion also features a chronology of key events and publication dates covering the first half of the twentieth century in the United States. The introductory reference guide concludes with a current bibliography of further reading organized by chapter topics.
Author: David Holdeman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006-09-14
Total Pages: 127
ISBN-13: 113945787X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
