Yeats as Precursor Readings in Irish, British and American Poetry
Description
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 presence within the major poetry criticism of the century.
Keywords
Literary CriticismEuropeanEnglish, Irish, Scottish, WelshModern19th Century20th CenturyPoetryLanguage Arts & DisciplinesLinguistics
2000Book
Author(s)Steven Matthews
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9780333711477
LanguageEnglish
