Yests and the Poetry of Death: Elegy, Self-Elegy, and the Sublime

by Jahan Ramazani

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Man has created death, wrote Yeats, and in this book Jahan Ramazani argues that the effort to create and recreate death is the major impulse of Yeats' poetry. According to Ramazani, death was Yeats' muse, and his best poems are his vexed meditations on loss, ruin, and oblivion. Ramazanu reviews Yeats' elegies, his self-elegies, and his poems in the sublime mode, as well as his work in such related modes as love lyric and prophecy, carpe diem and the...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0300048041

ISBN13:9780300048049

Release Date:September 1990

Publisher:Yale University Press

Length:244 Pages

Weight:1.10 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 5.8" x 8.6"

Related Subjects

History & Criticism Irish Literature & Fiction Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Movements & Periods Poetry World Literature

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