Yeats and Artistic Power

by Phillip L. Marcus

Overview

The first book length study on the aesthetic and artistic power of William Butler Yeats, this book demonstrates the centrality in his work of the concept that art might shape life, from his earliest assay to the great poems and plays of his last years.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814754719
Publisher:	New York University Press
Publication date:	05/01/1992
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Phillip L. Marcus is Professor of English at Cornell Universityand co-general editor of the Cornell Yeats Series. He is also the author of Yeats and the Beginning of the Irish Renaissance.

Table of Contents

Introduction; the early work; 1899-1917; the twenties and thirties; conclusion.

Editorial Reviews

A study of W.B. Yeat's aesthetic of artistic power, demonstrating the centrality in his work, from his earliest essay to the great poems and plays of his last years, of the concept that art might shape life. In addition to throwing light on many of Yeats' best-known texts, the study has important implications for literary theory in the post-deconstructionist era. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

By seeing the movement from early hope and confidence in artistic power, through discouragement, to the gaining of a new confidence which builds on the poet's recognition of what it is possible to achieve, [Marcus] can see the work as a whole without reducing its complexity.

Yeats Annual No. 12

This is a very informative and detailed study, carefully written and executed.

Yeats: An Annual

Several of the most telling chapters are commentaries on several poems and plays including 'Blood and the Moon,' 'Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931,' 'Parnell's Funeral' and 'The Death of Cuchulain.'

The New York Review of Books