Yeats and Afterwords: Christ, Culture, and Crisis

In Yeats and Afterwords, contributors articulate W. B. Yeats's powerful, multilayered sense of belatedness as part of his complex literary method. They explore how Yeats deliberately positioned himself at various historical endpoints--of Romanticism, of the Irish colonial experience, of the Ascendancy, of civilization itself--and, in doing so, created a distinctively modernist poetics of iteration capable of registering the experience of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268011206
• ISBN13: 9780268011208
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"