Transition, Reception and Modernism

by Richard L. Greaves

In this study of Yeats' poetry between 1902 and 1916, Greaves strongly reacts to the tendency in literary criticism to categorize Yeats' work as 'modernist', Instead, Greaves offer a different way of looking at the transition in Yeats' work in this period, by examining the poems in the context of Yeats' life. As a result, the figure of Yeats the poet is resurrected from the exhaustive category of 'modernism' and the complex connections between the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 134941168X
• ISBN13: 9781349411689
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.0" x 8.0"