The Book of Yeats's Vision: Romantic Modernism and Antithetical Tradition

by Hazard Adams

Book Overview

In this sequel to his critical study of Yeats's poems, Hazard Adams turns to Yeats's odd, eccentric, comic, and finally serious prose work A Vision. A Vision has long exasperated some readers with its occultist connections and strange, pseudo-geometrical diagrams, and intrigued others with its odd origins and complex thought. Adams argues that the book is of extraordinary interest for its literary merit, its place in intellectual history as an example...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047275002X
• ISBN13: 9780472750023
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"