Yeats as Precursor: Readings in Irish, British and American Poetry

by Steven Matthews

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As both a late Romantic and a modern, W.B. Yeats has proved to be perhaps the most influential poet of the early twentieth-century. In this original study Steven Matthews traces, through close readings of significant poems, the flow of Yeatsian influence across time and cultural space. By engaging with the formalist criticism of Harold Bloom and Paul de Man in their dialogues with Jacques Derrida, he also considers Yeats's significance as the founding...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0333711475

ISBN13:9780333711477

Release Date:January 2000

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:238 Pages

Weight:0.96 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Poetry

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