Title: Words Alone
Description: "W.B. Yeats is usually seen as a great innovator whose extraordinary imagination transformed modern Irish literature, making a decisive break with the past. But what made him the remarkable writer he was? In this book, drawn from the 2009 Clark Lectures, Yeats's prize-winning biographer R.F. Foster returns to the rich seed-bed of nineteenth-century Irish literature to reveal the influences that shaped the poet's unique and powerful voice: romantic history of the Young Ireland movement, the occult and supernatural novels of Sheridan LeFanu, William Carleton's 'peasant fictions', fairy-lore, and folktale collections. The young Yeats consciously mined these traditions and was, Foster shows, an inheritor as much as an inventor."--Jacket.
Subjects: Yeats, w. b. (william butler), 1865-1939, English literature, irish authors, history and criticism, Criticism and interpretation, Sources, Irish literature, History and criticism, Civilization, Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.), English literature, Irish influences, Irish authors, Englisch, Literatur, Analys och tolkning, Irländsk litteratur, Irländska författare