Gender and History in Yeats's Love Poetry

by Elizabeth Butler Cullingford

Book Overview

This first full-length feminist treatment of Yeats shows how his experience of changes in the balance of power between men and women led him to expand the formal possibilities of love poetry. As a white, male, middle-class, Protestant citizen of the British Empire, with an acknowledged debt to canonical English writers, Yeats belonged to the dominant tradition. As a colonised Irishman, however, he was acutely conscious of repression and exclusion...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521431484
• ISBN13: 9780521431484
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"