Running to Paradise Yeats's Poetic Art

Name: Running to Paradise Yeats's Poetic Art
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ISBN: 9780195113914

ISBN-10: 0195113918

ISBN-13: 9780195113914

Edition: 1997 (Reprint)

Authors: M. L. Rosenthal

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In Running to Paradise, M.L. Rosenthal, hailed by the Times Literary Supplement as "one of the most important critics of twentieth-century poetry," leads us through the lyric poetry and poetic drama of our century's greatest poet in English. His readings shed new, vivid light on Yeats's daring uses of tradition, his love poetry, and the way he faced the often tragic realities of revolution and civil war. Running to Paradise describes Yeats's whole effort--sometimes leavened by wild humor--to convey, with high poetic integrity, his passionate sense of his own life and of his chaotic era. Himself a noted poet, Rosenthal stresses Yeats's artistry and psychological candor. The book ranges from…

Book details

List price: $94.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/24/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.19" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English



Introduction



Early Poems (with Some Glances Ahead)



Before 1900



1900 to 1904



Early Drama (with Some Glances Ahead)



Before 1900 vis-a-vis The Hour-Glass and Calvary



The Land of Heart's Desire and Plays of 1900 to 1908



Poetry of Transition I (1910-1914)



The Green Helmet and Other Poems



Responsibilities



Drama of Transition and the Cuchulain Cycle



The Dreaming of the Bones and Plays of the 1920s



The Cuchulain Plays and Poems



Poetry of Transition II (1914-1919)


[The Wild Swans at Coole and Michael Robartes and the Dancer]



The Tower



Drama of the 1930s



Poetry after The Tower



The Winding Stair and Other Poems



From Parnell's Funeral through Last Poems


Index


Illustrations


Portrait of Yeats (1907)



Playbill of The Land of Heart's Desire


"Mr. W. B. Yeats Presenting Mr. George Moore to the Queen of the Fairies"


"Cuchulain Mask,"



The "Guardian of the Well" for At the Hawk's Well



The "Old Man" for At the Hawk's Well



Maud Gonne (photograph c. 1900)


Georgianna Hyde-Leeds (Mrs. Yeats)


Yeats family photograph (c. 1927)


Thoor Ballylee ("The Tower")


Yeats and Maud Gonne in the 1930s


Portrait of Lady Gregory