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Yeats's Poetry in the Making: Sing Whatever Is Well Made
This book traces the creative process in Yeats's writing, in his making and remaking of verse, and in the development of a body of work over the last forty years of his life. Lyrical and philosophical poetry, verse-drama, and the shifting contexts of personal and political events are all dealt with here.
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Yeats's Poetry in the Making: Sing Whatever Is Well Made
This book traces the creative process in Yeats's writing, in his making and remaking of verse, and in the development of a body of work over the last forty years of his life. Lyrical and philosophical poetry, verse-drama, and the shifting contexts of personal and political events are all dealt with here.
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Yeats's Poetry in the Making: Sing Whatever Is Well Made

Yeats's Poetry in the Making: Sing Whatever Is Well Made

by W. Chapman
Yeats's Poetry in the Making: Sing Whatever Is Well Made

Yeats's Poetry in the Making: Sing Whatever Is Well Made

by W. Chapman

Overview

This book traces the creative process in Yeats's writing, in his making and remaking of verse, and in the development of a body of work over the last forty years of his life. Lyrical and philosophical poetry, verse-drama, and the shifting contexts of personal and political events are all dealt with here.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780230271913
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 07/16/2010
Edition description: 2010
Pages: 358
Product dimensions: 5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

WAYNE K. CHAPMAN is Professor of English at Clemson University, USA. He is the author of Yeats and English Renaissance Literature (Macmillan, 1991), and co-edited no.15 in the Yeats Annual series, Yeats's Collaborations (2002). He has co-edited two volumes for the Cornell Yeats Manuscript series, The Countess Cathleen: Manuscript Materials (1999) and The Dreaming of the Bones and Calvary: Manuscript Materials (2003). He is also Editor of the South Carolina Review and Executive Editor of Clemson University Digital Press.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Poetic Themes Are Plants That Grow: The Process of Making and Remaking Verse The ' Countess Cathleen Row' of 1899, Later Revisions, and Poems (1901-1929) The Annotated Responsibilities : Errors in the Variorum Edition and a New Reading of the Genesis of Two Poems, On those that hated The Playboy of the Western World, 1907 and The New Faces Yeats's Displaced Rebellion Poems and the Great War: The Case of The Wild Swans at Coole and Michael Robartes and the Dancer Guardians of the Tower and Stream : Yeats's Unfinished Fifth Play for Dancers, 1918-1923 The Miltonic Crux of The Phases of the Moon and News for the Delphic Oracle Blake, Swedenborg, and A Vision : A Case for Recombinate Influence The Municipal Gallery Re-visited and Its Writing W. B. and George Yeats: The Writing, Editing, and Dating of Yeats's Poems of the Mid 1920s and 1930s Appendix A: A Chronology of the Composition of the Poems Appendix B: Yeats's Unfinished Fifth Play for Dancers , 1918-1923 Notes Select Bibliography
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