| Description |
xix, 236 pages : illustrations, facsimile, portraits ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-219) and index. |
| Summary |
"W.B. Yeats is usually seen as a great innovator whose extraordinary imagination transformed modern Irish literature, making a decisive break with the past. But what made him the remarkable writer he was? In this book, drawn from the 2009 Clark Lectures, Yeats's prize-winning biographer R.F. Foster returns to the rich seed-bed of nineteenth-century Irish literature to reveal the influences that shaped the poet's unique and powerful voice: romantic history of the Young Ireland movement, the occult and supernatural novels of Sheridan LeFanu, William Carleton's 'peasant fictions', fairy-lore, and folktale collections. The young Yeats consciously mined these traditions and was, Foster shows, an inheritor as much as an inventor."--Dust jacket. |
| Contents |
National tales and national futures in Ireland and Scotland after 1800 -- The first Romantics : young Irelands between Catholic emancipation and the famine -- Lost in the big house : Anglo-Irishry and the uses of the supernatural -- Oisin comes home : Yeats as inheritor. |
| Subject |
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 -- Sources.
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English literature -- Irish authors -- History and criticism.
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English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Ireland -- Civilization -- 19th century.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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English literature -- Irish influences.
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| Added Title |
Yeats and his inheritances |
| ISBN |
9780199592166 hardback |
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0199592160 hardback |
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