The later affluence of W.B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens
By: Edward Clarke
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780230296688
Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; Criticism and interpretation; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
Description: Edward Clarke€considers a concourse of poets that move toward the late work of W.B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens. Sometimes encounters with predecessors are arranged by imitation or allusion, sometimes one poet is unconsciously influenced by another, and sometimes they meet by chance.€This book€surveys the later work of Yeats and Stevens through chapter length studies in order to unfold their very last poems, thereby following their relations with western literature and tradition, and showing€how€they transform€our readings of€earlier poets.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.