Author: Vikramaditya Rai
ISBN: TBA
Pages: 274 pages
Size: A5
Genre: Literary Criticism / Poetry Studies / Irish Literature
Binding: Paperback
Key Features:
- Comprehensive overview of W.B. Yeats's poetry and evolution
- Covers mystical symbolism, politics, and spiritual vision in YeatsÕs verse
- Analysis of poems like The Second Coming, Lake Isle of Innisfree, and Byzantium
- Chapters on Yeats's stylistic development and romantic traditions
- Ideal for English literature students and poetry enthusiasts
- Published by Doaba Publications; Distributed by Anubhav Publishings and Distribution
Description:
The Poetry of W.B. Yeats by Vikramaditya Rai offers a lucid and structured journey through the celebrated poetÕs life and literary contributions. Divided into thematic and chronological chapters, this book examines YeatsÕs changing style, poetic influences, and his exploration of Irish identity and mysticism. Through detailed readings of his most celebrated works, the book becomes a reliable companion for understanding Yeats in both academic and personal contexts.
Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1
The Making of the Poet
Yeats, the Nationalist
Yeats and Magic
The Principal Figures Behind Yeats’s Work
CHAPTER 2
Yeats and the Romantic Tradition
Theory of the Mask
Yeats and Symbolism
Yeats’s System
CHAPTER 3
Yeats’s Poetical Progress
The First Phase
The Wanderings of Oisin
Crossways
The Indian Upon God
Down by the Salley Gardens
The Rose
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
When You are Old
The Wind Among the Reeds
CHAPTER 4
The Second Phase
In the Seven Woods
The Folly of Being Comforted
Adam’s Curse
The Green Helmet and Other Poems
A Woman Homer Sung
No Second Troy
Upon A House Shaken by Land Agitation
Responsibilities
The Grey Rock
To A Wealthy Man
September 1913
To A Shade
The Cold Heaven
CHAPTER 5
The Third Phase
The Wild Swans at Coole
In Memory of Major Robert Gregory
Solomon to Sheba
To A Young Beauty
The Scholar
Shepherd and Goatherd
Lines Written in Dejection
Upon a Dying Lady
Ego Dominus Tuus
The Phases of the Moon
The Double Vision of Michael Robartes
Michael Robartes and the Dancer
Solomon and the Witch
Easter, 1916
The Rose Tree
On a Political Prisoner
Demon and Beast
The Second Coming
A Prayer for My Daughter
CHAPTER 6
The Fourth Phase
Sailing To Byzantium
The Tower
Meditations in Time of Civil War
Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen
Two Songs From A Play
Leda and the Swan
Among School Children
All Soul’s Night
The Winding Stair and Other Poems
Death
Dialogue of Self and Soul
Blood and the Moon
Coole Park, 1929
Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931
Byzantium
Vacillation
Crazy Jane and the Bishop
Crazy Jane Reproved
Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop
The Delphic Oracle Upon Plotinus
Chosen
Her Vision in the Wood
A Full Moon in the March
Parnell’s Funeral
Supernatural Songs
Ribh at the Tomb of Baile and Aillinn
Ribh Denounces Patrick
Meru
CHAPTER 7
The Last Poems
Old Rocky Face
Lapis Lazuli
The Three Bushes
An Acre of Grass
To Dorothy Wellesley
The Curse of Cromwell
The Municipal Gallery Re-visited
The Statues
News for the Delphic Oracle
Long-legged Fly
The Bronze Head
John Kinsella’s Lament
High Talk
The Circus Animals’ Desertion
Politics
The Man and the Echo
Under Ben Bulben
CHAPTER 8
Stylistic Development
CHAPTER 9
Explication of Some More Poems
The Stolen Child
The Man Who Dreamed of Faery Land
The Song of Wandering Aengus
The Rose of the World
The Fascination of What is Difficult
Men Improve with the Years
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