Title: Imagining Ireland in the poems and plays of W.B.Yeats : nation, class, and state /
Authors: Bradley, Anthony, 1942-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Yeats, W. B. Political and social views.; Yeats, W. B. Criticism and interpretation.; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.; Politics and literature Ireland History; Politics and literature Ireland History; Nationalism and literature Ireland History.; Modernism (Literature) Ireland; Irland; Literary studies: from c 1900 English Ireland.; Literary studies: poetry & poets English Ireland.; Literature.; Literature; Litteratur och politik historia Irland; Modernism (Literature); Motiv.; Nationalism and literature; Political and social views.; Politics and literature; Ireland In literature.
Abstract: "An important part of the Irish national imaginary, Yeat's poems and plays have helped to invent the nation of Ireland, while critiquing the modern Irish state that emerged from the nation'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."--
Contents: 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.