Modern Poetry and Ethnography
Subtitle: Yeats, Frost, Warren, Heaney, and the Poet as Anthropologist
By: Sean Heuston
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9780230111677
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Anthropology in literature; Literature and anthropology; History and criticism; Ethnology in literature; Irish authors; English poetry; American poetry; Irish American authors; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
Description: "Modern Poetry and Ethnography: Yeats, Frost, Warren, Heaney, and the Poet as Anthropologist maps a new approach to the works of W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, Robert Penn Warren, and Seamus Heaney. Heuston analyzes the ways the works of each writer represent and explain a country or region (Ireland for Yeats, New England for Frost, the American South for Warren, and Northern Ireland for Heaney) as if the writers were anthropologists or ethnographers. This project argues provocatively that literary critics can benefit greatly from the insights and theories of anthropology and ethnography"--