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Words Alone: Yeats and His Inheritances
R. F. Foster
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Description for Words Alone: Yeats and His Inheritances
Hardback. Yeats is usually seen as a great modernist innovator. This book goes against the grain to explore the Irish literary traditions that preceded and influenced him-romantic 'national tales' in post-Union Ireland, the poetry and polemic of the Young Ireland movement, the occult novels of Sheridan LeFanu, and William Carleton's 'peasant fictions'. Num Pages: 256 pages, Numerous black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: DSBH; DSC; HBJD1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 206 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 364. Fine in fine dust wrapper
W. B. Yeats is usually seen as a great innovator who put his stamp so decisively on modern Irish literature that most of his successors worked in his shadow. R. F. Foster's eloquent and authoritative book weaves together literature and history to present an alternative perspective. By returning to the rich seed-bed of nineteenth-century Irish writing, Words Alone charts some of the influences, including romantic 'national tales' in post-Union Ireland, the poetry and polemic of the Young Ireland movement, the occult and supernatural novels of Sheridan LeFanu, William Carleton's 'peasant fictions', and fairy-lore and folktale collectors that created the unique ... Read more
W. B. Yeats is usually seen as a great innovator who put his stamp so decisively on modern Irish literature that most of his successors worked in his shadow. R. F. Foster's eloquent and authoritative book weaves together literature and history to present an alternative perspective. By returning to the rich seed-bed of nineteenth-century Irish writing, Words Alone charts some of the influences, including romantic 'national tales' in post-Union Ireland, the poetry and polemic of the Young Ireland movement, the occult and supernatural novels of Sheridan LeFanu, William Carleton's 'peasant fictions', and fairy-lore and folktale collectors that created the unique ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
258
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199592166
SKU
KSG0027124
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Ref
99-1
About R. F. Foster
R. F. Foster was born in Waterford and educated in both Ireland and the United States. A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, he subsequently became Professor of Modern British History at Birkbeck College, University of London and in 1991 the first Carroll Professor of Irish History at Oxford and a Fellow of Hertford College. He was elected a Fellow of ... Read more
Reviews for Words Alone: Yeats and His Inheritances
Foster is a historian in the way that Joyce was a novelist
Nicholas Allen, Irish Times,
A brilliant re-examination of W.B. Yeat's place in literature and history
Robert Gerwarth, Irish Times Books of the Year 2011
Sparkling
Helen Vendler, New Republic
A superbly original analysis of what his nineteenth-century Irish inheritance meant to Yeats. ... Read more
Nicholas Allen, Irish Times,
A brilliant re-examination of W.B. Yeat's place in literature and history
Robert Gerwarth, Irish Times Books of the Year 2011
Sparkling
Helen Vendler, New Republic
A superbly original analysis of what his nineteenth-century Irish inheritance meant to Yeats. ... Read more