The Later Affluence of W. B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens [electronic resource] /
Clarke, E.author.
Surveying the later work of W.B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens, Edward Clarke unfolds their very last poems and considers the two poets' relations with western literature and tradition. This book shows how these two latecomers transform the ways in which we read earlier poets.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on Texts; List of Abbreviations; Prologue: 'Of the planet of which they were part'; The last two Romantics; Later affluence; Labyrinth and rainbow; 1 Yeats from The Tower to the Last Poems; Irony in Yeats; The ghost of Wordsworth; 'At sudden thunder of the mounting swan'; 2 Stevens from Transport to Summer to the Last Poems; Irony in Stevens; 'Brooding sounds of river noises'; The ghost of Wordsworth; 'The River of Rivers'; 3 'Cuchulain Comforted'; Yeats and Cuchulain; 'Now must we sing'; Unfolded linen; Linen taken up
'Behold a wonder worthy of the rhyme'4 'Not Ideas about the Thing but the Thing Itself'; The end of the decaying kind; The beginning of the unborn kind; A new knowledge as a last judgement; 5 The Very Last Poems; 'The Black Tower'; Other dark towers; 'Of Mere Being', or just about alive; Concerning pure existence; Epilogue: Songs of Sixpence; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Surveying the later work of W.B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens, Edward Clarke unfolds their very last poems and considers the two poets' relations with western literature and tradition. This book shows how these two latecomers transform the ways in which we read earlier poets.
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939
Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955
Poetry.
British literature.
Literature, Modern—20th century.
America—Literatures.
Poetry and Poetics.
British and Irish Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.
North American Literature.