Yeats The Poet: The Measures of Difference

by Edward Larrissy

Overview

This work addresses Yeats's "antinomies", seeing their origin and structure in his divided Anglo-Irish inheritance and examining the notion of measure. It then explores how this relates to freemasonry, Celticism and Orientalism and looks at the Blakean esoteric language of contrariety and outline which provided Yeats with the vocabulary of self-understanding.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138167438
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/23/2017
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Edward Larrissy is Professor of English at Queen's University, Belfast.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: Matter and Methodology; Part one The Matrix; Chapter 2 Matrix and Mean; Chapter 3 The Happy Shell and the Sad Shell; Chapter 4 Husks, Wandering and the Nation; Chapter 5 Rose, Mirror and Hem; Chapter 6 Fin-De-Siècle Fenianism: The Wind Among the Reeds; Part two Part Two The Measure; Chapter 7 The Masks of Difference; Chapter 8 Framing Ireland; Chapter 9 Reflections on Yeatsian Occultism; Part three Cracked Masonry; Chapter 10 Walls of The Tower; Chapter 11 Profane Perfection;