The Later Affluence of W. B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (574 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0230296688 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 247 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Surveying the later work of W.B. Yeats and Wallace Stevens, Edward Clarke unfolds their very last poems and considers the two poets' relations with western literature and tradition. This book shows how these two latecomers transform the ways in which we read earlier poets.
A Defence of Poetry Clarke is a critic who reads poetry with a poet's ear. His intensely focused readings of four late works by Yeats ('Cuchulain Comforted', 'The Black Tower') and Stevens ('Not Ideas', 'Of Mere Being') eschew the critical fashion for biographical or historicist readings, inviting us to consider these works instead in the wider, enrichening context of the Western and Eastern spiritual traditions. The 'lateness' of these works encourages the poets to ruminate on questions of immortality and . "PASTEURISÉ À PÂTE MOLLE À CROÛTE FLEURIE" according to THUMBTOM. I thought I might be in for a pleasant ride; because as I settled back in my seat, "all sense of being in a hurry gone", there was a notice from Seneca (Epistle LXXXVIII.PASTEURISÉ À PÂTE MOLLE À CROÛTE FLEURIE I thought I might be in for a pleasant ride; because as I settled back in my seat, "all sense of being in a hurry gone", there was a notice from Seneca (Epistle LXXXVIII.3), smiling in Roman, that the journey-work of scholars is of little practical use to mankind; and below that disclaimer was one from Augustine, in another ivory tower, talking of the humility that he disdained when he first opened up Chapman's Homer: "I took myself to be some great man".The ironies and the humour of suc. ), smiling in Roman, that the journey-work of scholars is of little practical use to mankind; and below that disclaimer was one from Augustine, in another ivory tower, talking of the humility that he disdained when he first opened up Chapman's Homer: "I took myself to be some great man".The ironies and the humour of suc
He has published work in the Wallace Stevens Journal, and contributed to Essays and Reflections on John Berryman (2006) and The Greenwood Encyclopaedia of American Poetry and Poetics (2006). EDWARD CLARKE tutors visiting students in English literature at St Catherine's College, Oxford University, UK.
He seeks to uncover their different relations to earlier poetsThis is indeed an ambitious study, which moves from Dante to Heidegger to Herbert to Virgil in the course of its readings. Clarke's passion is both provoking andalluringand it is on these terms that we need to meet this book. Many of us will shake with uncontrollable fear as we approach death; at that time, we will need to hear words, whispered in our ears, that will tell us of last things, as well as the first things that will paradoxically follow them. It is good that Edward Clarke reminds us who will do the whispering.' - Justin Quinn, Wallace Stevens Journal'Clarke is goodon the dialectical irony of Yeats's "The Tower", where he finely notes the d