Identity Of Yeats
Published on 27. January 2016
287 pages
978-1-78625-831-1 (ISBN)
Description
This classic study of Yeats' verse examines the poet's development of theme, symbol, style, and pattern. Through his knowledge of Yeats' life as well as his published and unpublished work, Ellmann recreates Yeats' ways of thinking, seeing, and writing and clarifies his difficult poems.
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Content
- Intro
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER I-INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER II-THE SEARCH FOR LIMITS
- I. BECOMING IRISH
- II. ARTISTIC DISCIPLINE
- III. THE SYMBOLIC INFLECTION
- IV. MARSHALLING THE ELEMENTS
- CHAPTER III-ASSERTION WITHOUT DOCTRINE
- I. BELIEF
- II. IDEAS OVERPOWERED
- III. SYMBOLIST THEORY
- CHAPTER IV-ICONOGRAPHY
- 1 THE STRUCTURE
- II. THE GAMUT OF ROSES
- III. THE TREE AND THE SERPENT
- IV. A SYMBOLIC DRAMA
- CHAPTER V-THE PURSUIT OF SPONTANEITY
- I. THATCH AND GUTTER
- II THE SCHEMATIZATION EXPANDED
- III. A POETRY OF PARTIAL REACTION
- IV RECONSTRUCTED THE PHANTASMAGORIA
- CHAPTER VI-STYLE AND RHETORIC
- 1. EARLY PRACTICE
- II. STYLISTIC CHANGES, 1889-99
- III. SELF-PORTRAITURE
- CHAPTER VII-SYMBOLS AND RITUALS IN THE LATER POETRY
- I. ANCHORAGES
- II. 'A VISION'
- III THE NEW SYMBOLS
- IV. SYMBOLS IN THE POEMS
- V. RITUALIZING
- CHAPTER VIII-THE FINAL FORM OF EXPERIENCE
- I. CULTIVATED EXTRAVAGANCE
- II. THE TENSIONS OF EAST AND WEST
- III THE ULTIMATE STYLE
- IV. BALLAD RHYTHMS
- V. 'AN OLD MAN'S EAGLE MIND' AND ITS THEMES
- CHAPTER IX-THE ART OF YEATS: AFFIRMATIVE CAPABILITY
- I. VARIETIES OF THE IMAGE
- II. IMAGES IN OPERATION
- III. DEATH AND LAST THINGS
- IV. IMAGES AND DAIMONS
- V. THE DUTY OF AFFIRMATION
- VI. YEATS OUT OF CONTEXT
- APPENDIX-TOWARDS A READING OF THE POEMS
- A CHRONOLOGY OF THE COMPOSITION OF THE POEMS
- CROSSWAYS (1889)
- THE ROSE (1893)
- THE WIND AMONG THE REEDS (1899)
- IN THE SEVEN WOODS (1903)
- FROM THE GREEN HELMET AND OTHER POEMS (1910)
- RESPONSIBILITIES (1914)
- THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE (1919)
- MICHAEL ROBARTES AND THE DANCER (1921)
- THE TOWER (1928)
- THE WINDING STAIR AND OTHER POEMS (1933)
- WORDS FOR MUSIC PERHAPS
- A WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD
- FROM A FULL MOON IN MARCH (1935)
- LAST POEMS (1936-1939)
- NARRATIVE AND DRAMATIC
