Yeats, Volume 10At once praised and condemned by his contemporaries and by critics ever since for his highly complex poetic vision, William Butler Yeats remains one of the most important and controversial twentieth-century poets. In what has become a classic work of literary criticism, award-winning critic Harold Bloom breaks new ground with his radical interpretation of Yeats' relationship to the English Romantic tradition. Yeats tells the continuous story of the lifelong influence of Shelley, Blake, and the Romantic tradition upon Yeats' work. Through his analysis of the full spectrum of Yeats' poems and plays, Bloom offers a profound reinterpretation of poetic influence in general. |
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Etching by Jack Coughlin frontispiece 1 Introduction | 3 |
Late Victorian Poetry and Pater | 23 |
The Tragic Generation | 38 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | Yeats, Volume 10 A Galaxy book 378 Volume 378 of Galaxy book Literary criticism OUP E-Books Oxford Paperbacks Oxford University Press paperback Yeats, Harold Bloom |
| Authors | Harold Bloom, Harold Irving Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint, reissue, revised |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press, 1970 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | Mar 14, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0195016033, 9780195016031 |
| Length | 500 pages |
| Subjects | › › Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures Literary Criticism / Poetry Poetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Religion / Eastern |
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