
Yeats and the Visual Arts
Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux(Author)
Syracuse University Press
Will be published approx. on 1. March 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
264 pages
978-0-8156-2995-5 (ISBN)
Description
This volume traces Yeats' fascination with the visual arts and their influence on his poetry. Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux demonstrates how the influences in Yeats' early years, especially his interest in Pre-Raphaelite painting, helped shape his aesthetic theory and practice as a poet. She argues that the analogies Yeats often used between the visual arts and literature provide an apt way to characterize his own work. In the early verse, the governing analogy is poem-as-painting; later, influenced by his work in the theatre, Yeats writes poems analogous to the three-dimensional forms of sculpture. Loizeaux's thorough documentation and scholarly approach make her book a useful contribution to our understanding of Yeats' poetry.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
50 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
445 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8156-2995-5 (9780815629955)
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Person
Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux is associate professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of various essays on modern poetry and the visual arts, including a study of W. B. Yeats's collaboration with his brother, the painter Jack Yeats. She is also coeditor of Reimagining Textuality: Textual Studies in the Late Age of Print.