A. Norman Jeffares

Poems of W.B. Yeats

A New Selection

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This selection of 239 poems is supported by a critical introduction, very full explanatory notes, a bibliographical summary of Yeats's life, maps, a glossary of Irish names and places and their pronunciation and a bibliography. For this second edition, the notes have been thoroughly revised and updated.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Macmillan Education UK / Red Globe Press / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-333-45661-3
• 1988
• Seitenzahl: 452
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 1988
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 203mm x 127mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 482g
• ISBN-13: 9780333456613
• ISBN-10: 0333456610
• Artikelnr.: 43757248

Autorenporträt

Norman Jeffares is an authority on Yeats and Anglo-Irish literary traditions. He was formerly Professor of English at the University of Stirling.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction.- Abbreviations.- Acknowledgements.- PART 1: POEMS.- The Craft of Poetry.- Dreams
.- Irish Mythology Revived.- Friends and Friendship.- Irish Characters and Places.- The Poet's Family.- Moods and Meditations.- Irish Narrative Poems.- Anglo-Irish Attitudes.- Love and Sex.- The Supernatural.- Form the Plays.- Idiosyncrasies and Grotesqueries.- Arcadian and Indian Poems.- The Thought of A Vision.- Adaptations and Translations.- Age and After.- Politics and Polemics.- Bibliographical Summary.- Notes.- Appendices.- Bibliography.- Indexes.