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050 00 $aPR5908.A35$bL37 1994
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100 1 $aLarrissy, Edward.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85109037
245 10 $aYeats the poet :$bthe measures of difference /$cEdward Larrissy.
260 $aNew York ;$aLondon :$bHarvester Wheatsheaf,$c1994.
300 $axii, 226 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 209-217) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tIntroduction: Matter and Methodology --$gPt. 1.$tThe Matrix.$g2.$tMatrix and Mean.$g3.$tThe Happy Shell and the Sad Shell.$g4.$tHusks, Wandering and the Nation.$g5.$tRose, Mirror and Hem.$g6.$tFin-de-Siecle Fenianism: The Wind Among the Reeds --$gPt. 2.$tThe Measure.$g7.$tThe Masks of Difference.$g8.$tFraming Ireland.$g9.$tReflections on Yeatsian Occultism --$gPt. 3.$tCracked Masonry.$g10.$tWalls of The Tower.$g11.$tProfane Perfection.
520 $aIn this new study Edward Larrissy seeks to examine the relationship between Yeats's divided Anglo-Irish inheritance and his aesthetic. The difference in the title is primarily cultural difference, but it does also refer to deconstructionist differance as providing one possible way of thinking about the acute sense of division palpable in Yeats's poems at the very point where he seeks unity of being.
520 8 $aIn pursuit of these topics Larrissy seeks to illustrate an overall movement in Yeats's work: initially, Yeats thought of himself as an intermediary between Eternal Beauty, which has Celtic affinities, and measure which may be mechanical if not handled correctly and hence is associated with the cosmopolitan or English. This fresh examination of his major poems owes much to modern critical theory, with a study of the poet's historical position showing the strength of Gaelic influences upon him.
520 8 $aWhen Yeats starts to celebrate his Anglo-Irish ancestry, reacting against his own early work, he also begins to feel more marginal to the development of Irish society and there is a corresponding tendency to value qualities of firm outline in his poetry which had earlier been seen as too sternly measured and 'external'. In his last phase, however, these tensions soften and merge, and both passion and measure are seen as triumphant possessions of the whole Irish tradition.
520 8 $aThis book also offers new insights about Yeats's relationship to the Romantic poets, to freemasonry and the later Gaelic tradition. It also looks in detail at the influence of Blake and the esoteric language of 'contrariety' and 'outline' which provided Yeats with the vocabulary of self-understanding.
600 10 $aYeats, W. B.$q(William Butler),$d1865-1939$xAesthetics.
600 10 $aYeats, W. B.$q(William Butler),$d1865-1939$xKnowledge$xEngland.
600 10 $aYeats, W. B.$q(William Butler),$d1865-1939$xKnowledge$xIreland.
650 0 $aDifference (Psychology) in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94003914
650 0 $aBritish$zIreland$xCivilization.
651 0 $aIreland$xIn literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008104923
650 0 $aMarginality, Social, in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94006154
650 0 $aCivilization, Celtic, in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94003767
600 14 $aYeats, W. B.$q(William Butler),$d1865-1939.
653 0 $aEnglish poetry
852 00 $boff,glx$hPR5908.A35$iL37 1994