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The Last Minstrels: Yeats and the Revival of the Bardic Arts
Ronald Schuchard
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Description for The Last Minstrels: Yeats and the Revival of the Bardic Arts
paperback. Recovering a lost literary movement that was the most consuming preoccupation of W. B. Yeats's literary life, Ronald Schuchard's book provides an historical, biographical, and critical reconstruction of the poet's attempt to restore an oral tradition by reviving the bardic arts of chanting and musical speech. Num Pages: 500 pages, 26 black-and-white halftones, 8 textual illustrations. BIC Classification: AFKP; AN; DSBH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 30. Weight in Grams: 764.
Recovering a lost literary movement that was the most consuming preoccupation of W. B. Yeats's literary life and the most integral to his poetry and drama, Ronald Schuchard's The Last Minstrels provides an historical, biographical, and critical reconstruction of the poet's lifelong attempt to restore an oral tradition by reviving the bardic arts of chanting and musical speech. From the beginning of his career Yeats was determined to return the 'living voice' of the poet from exile to the centre of culture - on its platforms, stages, and streets - thereby establishing a spiritual democracy in the arts for the ... Read more
Recovering a lost literary movement that was the most consuming preoccupation of W. B. Yeats's literary life and the most integral to his poetry and drama, Ronald Schuchard's The Last Minstrels provides an historical, biographical, and critical reconstruction of the poet's lifelong attempt to restore an oral tradition by reviving the bardic arts of chanting and musical speech. From the beginning of his career Yeats was determined to return the 'living voice' of the poet from exile to the centre of culture - on its platforms, stages, and streets - thereby establishing a spiritual democracy in the arts for the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA United Kingdom
Number of pages
500
Condition
New
Number of Pages
500
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199596508
SKU
V9780199596508
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Reviews for The Last Minstrels: Yeats and the Revival of the Bardic Arts
this graceful and scholarly book affirmsthe importance of music and the great 'other' in Yeat's imagination.
Harry White, Music & Letters
Harry White, Music & Letters