Published 2018
“…Hannah Sullivan’s brilliant history of Yeats’s versecraft challenges Poundian definitions of Modernism; Denis Donoghue offers unique family memories of 1916 whilst tracing the political significance of the Easter Rising; Anita Feldman addresses Yeats’s responses to the Rising’s appropriation of his symbols and myths, the
daring artistry of his ritual drama developed
from Noh, his poetry of personal utterance, and his vision of art as
a body reborn rather than
a treasure preserved amid the testing of the illusions that hold civilizations together in ensuing wars. …”
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