Yests and the Poetry of Death: Elegy, Self-Elegy, and the Sublime

by Jahan Ramazani

Man has created death, wrote Yeats, and in this book Jahan Ramazani argues that the effort to create and recreate death is the major impulse of Yeats' poetry. According to Ramazani, death was Yeats' muse, and his best poems are his vexed meditations on loss, ruin, and oblivion. Ramazanu reviews Yeats' elegies, his self-elegies, and his poems in the sublime mode, as well as his work in such related modes as love lyric and prophecy, carpe diem and the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300048041
• ISBN13: 9780300048049
• Release Date: September 1990
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.6"