William B. Yeats /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Chelsea House,
[2001]
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| Series: | Bloom's major poets.
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Table of Contents:
- Biography of William Butler Yeats
- Thematic analysis of "The wild swans at Coole"
- Critical views of "The wild swans at Coole." Donald Stauffer on "The wild swans at Coole" ; Edward Engelberg on the metaphorical implications of the poem ; Curtis B. Bradford on the "A" draft of the poem ; Harold Bloom on the link between Shelley and Yeats ; Helen Regueiro on Yeats's attempt to come to terms with loss
- Thematic analysis of "The second coming"
- Critical views on "The second coming." W. B. Yeats on "The second coming" ; Jon Stallworthy on Yeats's alteration from "hawk" to "falcon" ; Helen Hennessy Vendler on mental experience ; Thomas R. Whitaker on the magical system of prophecy in the poem ; Donald Davie on the calculated collision in the poem
- Thematic analysis of "Leda and the swan"
- Critical views on "Leda and the swan." Giorgio Melchiori on the genesis of the poem ; Priscilla Washburn Shaw on "Leda and the swan" ; Thomas R. Whitaker on the divine-human polar reality ; Richard Ellmann on the rituals in the poem ; William H. O'Donnell on the poem's emphasis on physicality
- Thematic analysis of "Sailing to Byzantium"
- Critical views on "Sailing to Byzantium." Cleanth Brooks on "Sailing to Byzantium" as a metaphysical poem ; Giorgio Melchiori on the visual origin of the poem ; Curtis B. Bradford on the background of the poem ; Thomas R. Whitaker on "Sailing to Byzantium" ; Richard Ellmann on the poem's ambivalence
- Thematic analysis of "Byzantium"
- Critical views on "Byzantium." G. Wilson Knight on the poetical context of the imagery of "Byzantium" ; Frank Kermode on Byzantium as an image ; Helen Hennessy Vendler on the opposing images in the poem ; Thomas R. Whitaker on the ambiguities in "Byzantium" ; Richard Ellmann on the opposing images in the poem
- Thematic analysis of "Cuchulain comforted"
- Critical views on "Cuchulain comforted." F. A. C. Wilson on Yeats's theory of the Daemon ; A. Norman Jeffares on a draft of the poem ; Helen Hennessy Vendler on the antithesis in the poem ; Harold Bloom on the sublime in the poem.