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Yeats's Poetic Codes
Nicholas Grene explores Yeats's poetic codes of practice, the key words and habits of speech that shape the reading experience of his poetry. Where previous studies have sought to decode his work, expounding its symbolic meanings by references to Yeats's occult beliefs, philosophical ideas or political ideology, the focus here is on his poetic technique, its typical forms and their implications for the understanding of the poems. Grene is concerned with the distinctive stylistic signatures of the Collected Poems: the use of dates and place names within individual poems; the handling of demonstratives and of grammatical tense and mood; certain nodal Yeatsian words ('dream', 'bitter', 'sweet') and images (birds and beasts); dialogue and monologue as the voices of his dramatic lyrics. The aim throughout is to illustrate the shifting and unstable movement between lived reality and transcendental thought in Yeats, the embodied quality of his poetry between a phenomenal world of sight and an imagined world of vision.
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Yeats's Poetic Codes
Nicholas Grene explores Yeats's poetic codes of practice, the key words and habits of speech that shape the reading experience of his poetry. Where previous studies have sought to decode his work, expounding its symbolic meanings by references to Yeats's occult beliefs, philosophical ideas or political ideology, the focus here is on his poetic technique, its typical forms and their implications for the understanding of the poems. Grene is concerned with the distinctive stylistic signatures of the Collected Poems: the use of dates and place names within individual poems; the handling of demonstratives and of grammatical tense and mood; certain nodal Yeatsian words ('dream', 'bitter', 'sweet') and images (birds and beasts); dialogue and monologue as the voices of his dramatic lyrics. The aim throughout is to illustrate the shifting and unstable movement between lived reality and transcendental thought in Yeats, the embodied quality of his poetry between a phenomenal world of sight and an imagined world of vision.
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Yeats's Poetic Codes

Yeats's Poetic Codes

by Nicholas Grene
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Yeats's Poetic Codes

by Nicholas Grene

Overview

Nicholas Grene explores Yeats's poetic codes of practice, the key words and habits of speech that shape the reading experience of his poetry. Where previous studies have sought to decode his work, expounding its symbolic meanings by references to Yeats's occult beliefs, philosophical ideas or political ideology, the focus here is on his poetic technique, its typical forms and their implications for the understanding of the poems. Grene is concerned with the distinctive stylistic signatures of the Collected Poems: the use of dates and place names within individual poems; the handling of demonstratives and of grammatical tense and mood; certain nodal Yeatsian words ('dream', 'bitter', 'sweet') and images (birds and beasts); dialogue and monologue as the voices of his dramatic lyrics. The aim throughout is to illustrate the shifting and unstable movement between lived reality and transcendental thought in Yeats, the embodied quality of his poetry between a phenomenal world of sight and an imagined world of vision.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780191552946
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publication date: 06/12/2008
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 475 KB

About the Author

Nicholas Grene is a Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, where he is Professor of English Literature. He has published widely on Irish drama and on Shakespeare. His books include Bernard Shaw: A Critical View (1984), Shakespeare's Tragic Imagination (1992), The Politics of Irish Drama (1999), and Shakespeare's Serial History Plays (2002). He was the founding Director of the Synge Summer School (1991 to 2000) and is currently Chair of the Irish Theatrical Diaspora research network. A Member of the Royal Irish Academy, he has held visiting professorships at the University of New South Wales and Dartmouth College, and has been an invited lecturer in over fifteen countries.

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Dates
2. This and that, here and there
3. Dream
4. Place names
5. Beasts and birds
6. Tense and mood
7. Voices
8. Bitter/sweet
Conclusion: ... but half...
Bibliography
Index of poems discussed
General Index

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