Yeats and English Renaissance Literature

by Wayne K Chapman

Overview

This book is the first to make extensive use of unpublished manuscripts to show how a period of English literature affected W.B.Yeats's development as a poet. Besides presenting a factual account of his acquaintance with English Renaissance writers based on evidence from his library and elsewhere, the study examines his response to numerous minor figures and several major ones - including Spenser, Jonson, Shakespeare, Donne and Milton.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333521779
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	07/18/1991
Series:	Studies in Anglo-Irish Literature
Edition description:	1991
Pages:	308
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

List of Plates - Preface - Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - Tradition, 'Imitation', and the Synthesis of Form and Content - Proto-Modern Poet, 1885-1910: Summoning the Renaissance Spirit with Arnold, Pater, and John Butler Yeats - Yeats and Spenser: Form, Philosophy, and Pictorialism, 1881-1902 - Yeats and the School of Jonson: Books, Masques, Epigrams, and Elegies, 1902-1919 - Yeats, Donne, and the Metaphysicals: Polemics and Lyrics, 1896-1929 - The Rapprochement with Milton and Spenser, 1918-1939 - Notes - Selected Bibliography - Index