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W.B. Yeats

by Edward Larrissy
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9780746308301
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: English Literature
  • Publisher: Northcote House
  • Publisher Imprint: Northcote
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 96
  • Original Price: INR 250.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 160 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

In line with a major tendency in post-colonial criticism, this study assumes the value of cultural and historical studies but also makes use of notions of difference derived from the work of Derrida. Irish writing, including the poetry of Yeats, is increasingly seen in a post-colonial perspective. In the case of Yeats, this has meant coming to terms with the implications of his Anglo-Irish Protestant background. This led to his sense of alienation from unity with Ireland and its ancient traditions. But it also led to a compensatory drive towards a revival of Irish culture which Yeats believed an Anglo-Irish Protestant was especially qualified to create. This study shows how Yeats moves from an identification with Ireland in his early work, through a period in which he re-emphasises his Anglo-Irish inheritance and its difference from that of Catholics, to a new sense of unity in his later work, founded on the belief that the Gaelic and Anglo-Irish aristocracies were fundamentally at one. Effects of d

Larrissy, Edward: - Edward Larrissy is Emeritus Professor of Poetry in the Queen's University of Belfast, where he chairs the Advisory Board of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry. His published works include Yeats the Poet: The Measures of Difference (1994), Blake and Modern Literature (2006), and The Blind and Blindness in Literature of the Romantic Period (2007). He has also edited, among other things, W.B. Yeats: Visions and Revisions (2010), and The First Yeats: Poems by W.B. Yeats 1889-1899 (2010).

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