Includes the poem, Nineteen hundred and nineteen.
Is the material world an art text? This book answers these questions by examining modernist literature, especially James Joyce and W.B. Yeats, in the context of anarchist intellectual thought and Georges Sorel's theory of social myth.
Includes two essays: Needless Horror or Terrible Beauty: Yeats's Ideas of Hatred, War, & Violence and W.B. Yeats & the Politics of A Vision.
certainly , the explicit consequences of a violent attitude in “ Under Ben Bulben ” ( CP 398 ) : when all words are said ... Just as no critic will ever establish Yeats's unqualified innocence in relation to the necessity of violence ...
"Yeats's depiction of political violence is examined through a reading of the political poetry centred on "Easter 1916," "Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen," and "Meditations in Time of Civil War," each...
Molino, Michael R. “Flying by the Nets of Language and Nationality: Seamus Heaney, the “English” Language, and Ulster's Troubles.” Modern Philology 91.2 (1993): 180-201. Moloney, Karen Marguerite. Seamus Heaney and the Emblems of Hope.
This dissertation reconsiders the key importance of violence as an aesthetic, political, and cultural category in Seamus Heaney's poetry and translations. The dissertation begins by asking how the relation between...
Dans ce recueil convergent différents regards sur la poésie de W.B. Yeats. Ces pages le situent par rapport à d’autres poètes comme MacNeice.
subvert it'.35 Elizabeth Cullingford , in Gender and History in Yeats's Love Poetry ( 1993 ) , seeks to show how ... on the Poems of W. B. Yeats , Basingstoke : Macmillan , 1984 ; John Unterecker , A Reader's Guide to William Butler ...
A commentary on Yeats' life and thought
The book concludes with a discussion of Virginia Woolf's oeuvre, placing the author in two primary relations to the encroaching culture of violence: deeply exploring and formalizing its registers; and veering away from her peers to ...