A Preface to Yeats - Brossura

Malins, Edward

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ISBN 10: 0582090938 ISBN 13: 9780582090934

Casa editrice: Routledge, 1994

Riassunto

The first edition, by the late Edward Malins, of this informative guide to the life and works of one of the most important and difficult poets of the 20th century, has now been extensively revised by John Purkis. It begins by providing biographical details on Yeats, with particular emphasis on his education, his appearance and his characteristics. It then places the poet in his cultural background, discussing the history of Ireland and major ideas which influenced his poetry. This is followed by an updated critical section which includes careful close readings of ten of his poems. The book concludes with an extensive reference section containing information about his many friends and their influence on and connection with particular poems.

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After an assessment of several elements in the poet's biography and intellectual growth, Mr Malins selects a small group of poems written between the 1890s and the 1930s. Crucial to the entire development of the poet and, much more significantly, to the resurgence of the Irish nation, were the events of Easter 1916 in Dublin. The political background of Irish nationalism is therefore given close attention, along with the history of the country and an explanation in some detail of its mythology, subjects which for the non-Irish reader may be sources of misunderstanding when they are used in the poetry. At the beginning of his career, Yeats was most familiar for his excursions into sagas, myths and legends of the ancient world, the Orient and, above everything else, the Celtic race. At the time, as an early reviewer wrote, Yeats's "special vice" was "indefiniteness". But later, as the result of living through a major change of feeling. Yeats revised his early work considerably and attained a mastery of symbol, tone and lyricism, all running together, notably above his earlier grasp. Of the utmost importance here, in the "Great Period" is the 1928 volume, "The Tower", source of "Leda and the Swan" and many other most distinguished pieces.

Contenuti:

List of illustrations and maps.  Foreward to the Second edition.  Acknowledgements.  List of Abbreviations. 
Part 1: Historical and literary background.  Chronological table.  1. Biographical summaries
.  2. The history of Ireland as it concerned the poet.  3. The poet's reading.  4. A vision.  Part 2: Critical survey
Introduction.  Early years - the 1880s.  "The Stolen Child".  "Cuchulain's Fight with the Sea".  "The Players Ask for a Blessing on the Psalteries and on Themselves".  "The Magi".  "On a Political Prisoner".  "The Second Coming".  "Meditations in Time of Civil War - Part IV".  "Sailing to Byzantium".  "The O'Rahilly".  "The Circus Animals' Desertion".  Part 3: Reference section  Yeats' family, friends and acquaintances.  Gazetteer.  Yeats' symbols, their origins, connections and attributes.  Common Irish (Gaelic) place names.  Derivations and pronunciation.  Further reading.  General Index.  Index to Yeat's works

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• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0582090938
• ISBN 13: 9780582090934
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 232