Yeats and English Renaissance Literature
Published on 18. July 1991
Book
Hardback
XX, 308 pages
978-0-333-52177-9 (ISBN)
Description
This book is the first to make extensive use of unpublished manuscripts to show how a period of English literature affected W.B.Yeats's development as a poet. Besides presenting a factual account of his acquaintance with English Renaissance writers based on evidence from his library and elsewhere, the study examines his response to numerous minor figures and several major ones - including Spenser, Jonson, Shakespeare, Donne and Milton.
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Series
Edition
1991 edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
XX, 308 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
562 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-333-52177-9 (9780333521779)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-21402-0
Schweitzer Classification
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Additional editions
Wayne K. Chapman
Yeats and English Renaissance Literature
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07/2016
Palgrave Macmillan
€96.29
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Content
List of Plates - Preface - Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - Tradition, 'Imitation', and the Synthesis of Form and Content - Proto-Modern Poet, 1885-1910: Summoning the Renaissance Spirit with Arnold, Pater, and John Butler Yeats - Yeats and Spenser: Form, Philosophy, and Pictorialism, 1881-1902 - Yeats and the School of Jonson: Books, Masques, Epigrams, and Elegies, 1902-1919 - Yeats, Donne, and the Metaphysicals: Polemics and Lyrics, 1896-1929 - The Rapprochement with Milton and Spenser, 1918-1939 - Notes - Selected Bibliography - Index