Our secret discipline Yeats and lyric form / Helen Vendler.

Author/creator Vendler, Helen
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
Descriptionxvii, 428 pages ; 25 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Subjects
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939--Criticism and interpretation.
English literature--Irish authors. --History and criticism.
Lyric poetry--History and criticism.

Contents Lyric form in Yeats's poetry : Prophecy, love, and revolution -- Antechamber and afterlife : Byzantium and the Delphic Oracle -- The puzzle of sequence : Two political poems -- "Magical" techniques in the early poems -- Tales, feelings, farewells : Three stages of the Yeatsian Ballad -- Troubling the tradition : Yeats at sonnets -- The nationalist measure : Trimeter-quatrain poems -- Marches and the examination of conscience : The tetrameter line -- The medium of instruction : Doctrine in blank verse -- The renaissance aura : Ottava Rima poems -- The spacious lyric : Long stanzas, irregular lines -- Primitivism and the grotesque : "Supernatural songs" -- Rare forms.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 381-418) and index.
LCCN 2007023744
ISBN9780674026957 (alk. paper)
ISBN0674026950 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks PR 5907 .V37 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold