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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Yeats, W. B. (1865-1939)
Rubrique de classement : [Oeuvres poétiques complètes (anglais). 2021]
Titre(s) : The poems of W.B. Yeats. Volume one, 1882-1889 [Texte imprimé] / edited by Peter McDonald
Lien au titre d'ensemble : Appartient à : The poems of W.B. Yeats
Publication : Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2021
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXVII-724 p.) ; 25 cm
Collection : Longman annotated English poets
Lien à la collection : Longman annotated English poets
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"In this multi-volume edition, the poetry of W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) is presented in
full, with newly-established texts and detailed, wide-ranging commentary. Yeats began
to write verse in the nineteenth century, and over time his own arrangements of poems
repeatedly revised and rearranged both texts and canon. This edition of Yeats's poetry
presents all his verse, both published and unpublished, including a generous selection
of textual variants from the many manuscript and printed sources. The edition also
supplies the most extensive commentary on Yeats's poetry to date, explaining specific
references, and setting poems in their contexts; it also gives an account of the vast
range of both literary and historical influences at work on the verse. The poems are
presented in order of composition, and major revisions or rewritings of poems result
in separate inclusions (in chronological sequence) for these writings as they were
subsequently reconceived by the poet. In this third volume, Yeats's poetry of the
first decade on the twentieth century is brought into sharp focus, revealing the extent
of his efforts to re-fashion a style that had already made him a well-known poet.
All of the major modes in Yeats's earlier work are subject to radical re-imagining
in these years, from poetic narrative founded in Irish myth, in poems such as 'Baile
and Aillinn' and 'The Old Age of Queen Maeve', to the symbolist drama-poetry of The
Shadowy Waters, here edited in its two (completely different) versions of 1900 and
1906. In a decade when the theatre was one of Yeats's principal concerns, his lyric
poems, which were becoming increasingly explicit in personal terms, began to discover
new intensities of conversational pitch and mythic resonance. Poems such as 'The Folly
of Being Comforted', 'Adam's Curse', 'No Second Troy', and 'The Fascination of What's
Difficult' are given close attention in this new edition, alongside topical and epigrammatic
pieces that are often passed over in accounts of Yeats's development. The evolving
complexities of Yeats's personal and political lives are crucial to his artistic development
in these years, and the commentary gives these generous attention, showing how the
poetry both feeds upon and often transcends the circumstances of its composition.
The volume offers strong evidence for this decade as a crucial one in Yeats's poetic
life, in which the poet created wholly new registers for his verse as well as new
dimensions for his imaginative vision"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : McDonald, Peter (1962-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Yeats, W. B. (1865-1939) -- Critique et interprétation
Genre ou forme : Poésie anglaise -- 19e siècle
Indice(s) Dewey :
821.8 (23e éd.) = Poésie de langue anglaise - 1837-1899
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780367495602. - ISBN 0367495600. - ISBN 9781003047148 (erroné). - ISBN 9780367497620.
- ISBN 036749762X. - ISBN 9781003047254 (erroné). - ISBN 9781032419251. - ISBN 1032419253.
- ISBN 9781032419268. - ISBN 1032419261. - ISBN 9781003360407 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb468849928
Notice n° :
FRBNF46884992
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