AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.

Under the Yeats spell.(Student Guide to the Poems of W.B. Yeats)(Go, Lovely Nose)(Book review)

Quadrant

| April 01, 2006 | Gould, Alan | COPYRIGHT 2006 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Student Guide to the Poems of W.B. Yeats, by John Greening; Greenwich Exchange, 2005, about $30.

Go, Lovely Nose, by Ray Kelley; Five Islands Press, 2005, $18.95.

YEATS INTRODUCED ME to both the idea and the sensation of quarrelling with self. When I first encountered him at university, his poems illuminated how a mind could hold in tension values contradictory to those it thought it believed without the one lot needing to supplant the other.

My outlook then (as now) was egalitarian. May I prosper where all can, I thought, comfortably. Then amiable Prof. Wes Milgate took our tutorial through Yeats' "Meditations in Time of Civil War" and I was ...

Related articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, and more
Yeats Annual No. 12: A Special Number: That Accusing Eye: Yeats and His Irish...
Magazine article from: Notes and Queries Arkins, Brian September 1, 1997 700+ words
This volume contains valuable essays on Yeats's reception in Ireland by Edna Longley...Foster, and Peter McDonald. Reaction to Yeats in Ireland was complex and varied. Some Irish readers of Yeats readily got to the core of what he was...
Yeats' 'rough beast': sphinx or manticore? (William Butler Yeats)
Magazine article from: Notes and Queries Bull, Malcolm June 1, 1995 700+ words
Yeats's 'rough beast' in 'The Second Coming...by many critics.(1) It is clear that Yeats was originally thinking of an animated Sphinx...and collour red.(3) The parallels with Yeats's poem are remarkably close: not only...
Yeats Annual 12.
Magazine article from: The Review of English Studies Guinness, Selina May 1, 1998 700+ words
...number devoted to a consideration of Yeats and his Irish readers. Roy Foster writes...such as Padraic Colum gently corrected Yeats's version of Abbey Theatre history, the Catholic Bulletin excoriated Yeats for his anti-Irish degeneracy. Reading...
Yeats and Moran. (poet William Butler Yeats, D.P. Moran)
Magazine article from: Notes and Queries Leacock, Bernadette September 1, 1997 700+ words
...the 'horse collar' which William Butler Yeats used to describe what he saw as the degenerative...which formed between D. P. Moran and Yeats at the Irish Literary Society in London...he constantly carped at and criticized Yeats on religious, social, and personal levels...
YEATS' LAND OF VERSE.
Magazine article from: British Heritage Hyman, Randall April 1, 2000 700+ words
"I do read Yeats," proclaimed the bushyhaired Irish farmer...part-time caretaker of William Butler Yeats' famous summer home, Thoor Ballylee...locals, the landmarks associated with Yeats and his poetry represent just one more...
Yeats and Women.
Magazine article from: Notes and Queries Arkins, Brian December 1, 1993 700+ words
Pp. xxiii + 442 (Yeats Annual No. 9). Basingstoke and Macmillan, 1992...variety of methodologies, the authors of the volume Yeats and Women add considerably to our knowledge of how Yeats related to a succession of women and, in particular...
W.B. Yeats: A Century of Criticism.
Magazine article from: Notes and Queries Arkins, Brian June 1, 1995 700+ words
In his survey of Yeats criticism, Eitel Timm, who is the author of a book on Yeats and Nietzsche, asserts that 'This study aims to supplement Yeats's complete work by examining existing critical studies and placing them in historical and methodological...
W.B. Yeats: The Man and the Milieu.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review Heptonstall, Geoffrey December 1, 1997 700+ words
...enemy, Eamon de Valera, William Butler Yeats casts a long shadow. He set out to re...exemplar across a century. There seems a Yeats for each generation. The poetry invites...examination hall into general culture. Yeats learned much from folk traditions on the...
W. B. Yeats--a life finished.(W. B. Yeats: A Life. II: The Arch-Poet...
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review Bradbury, Edward June 1, 2004 700+ words
W. B. Yeats: A Life. II: The Arch-Poet 1915-1939...818465-4. The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume VIII: The Irish Dramatic Movement...pages. ISBN 0-333-32541-9. A W. B. Yeats Chronology. John S. Kelly. Palgrave Macmillan...
W.B. Yeats: A Life. vol. 1, The Apprentice Image.
Magazine article from: World Literature Today Pratt, William September 22, 1997 700+ words
Roy Foster's biography of Yeats is fascinating, be cause Yeats himself is fascinating, and we can never read enough...powerful poetic rhetoric which he had yet written." Yeats would have winced at the word rhetoric, because he himself...
For more facts and information, see all results

Source: HighBeam Research, Under the Yeats spell.(Student Guide to the Poems of W.B. Yeats)(Go,...

©2009 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
About us | FAQs | Contact us | Privacy policy | Terms and conditions
Other Gale sites: Encyclopedia.com | HighBeam Research | Acquire Content | Books & Authors | Goliath | MovieRetriever | Smart QandA