Imagining Ireland in the Poems and Plays of W. B. Yeats [electronic resource] : Nation, Class, and State /
Bradley, A.author.
An important part of the national imaginary, Yeat's work has helped to invent the nation of Ireland, while critiquing the modern state that emerged from it's revolutionary period. This study offers a chronological account of Yeat's volumes of poetry, contextualizing and analyzing them in light of Irish cultural and political history.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- "Romantic Ireland": Early Poems and Plays *Nation and Class in Responsibilities * History, Gender, Modernism: The Wild Swans at Coole and Michael Robartes and the Dancer * Modernism, Irishness, and the Postcolonial State: The Tower and The Winding Stair * A Return to Origins: New Poems and Last Poems.
An important part of the national imaginary, Yeat's work has helped to invent the nation of Ireland, while critiquing the modern state that emerged from it's revolutionary period. This study offers a chronological account of Yeat's volumes of poetry, contextualizing and analyzing them in light of Irish cultural and political history.
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939
British literature.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Poetry.
Ethnology.
British and Irish Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
Poetry and Poetics.
Cultural Anthropology.