This first full-length feminist treatment of Yeats's poetry explores his complex position in history and culture, his indeterminate gender identity and his constant remaking of his poetics. Through detailed examination of Yeats's poetry and politics it sets the private genre of love poetry in a public context.
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This first full-length feminist treatment of Yeats shows how his experience of changes in the balance of power between men and women led him to expand the formal possibilities of love poetry. As a white, male, middle-class, Protestant citizen of the British Empire, with an acknowledged debt to canonical English writers, Yeats belonged to the dominant tradition. As a colonised Irishman, however, he was acutely conscious of repression and exclusion. Detailed examination of Yeats's work in the context of the formal conventions of love poetry and the history of the emancipation of women and the decolonisation of Ireland re-situated a private genre in a public context. Yeats's complex position in history and culture, his long obsession with a 'New Woman', his indeterminate gender identity and his constant remaking of his poetics all contribute to the power of his poetry to fascinate the reader.
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- EditorialCambridge University Press
- Año de publicación1993
- ISBN 10 0521431484
- ISBN 13 9780521431484
- EncuadernaciónTapa dura
- Número de páginas350