: R. F. Foster
: Words Alone: Yeats and his Inheritances Yeats and his Inheritances
: OUP Oxford
: 9780191619670
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: CHF 20.50
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: Belletristik
: English
Yeats is usually seen as a great modernist innovator. This book goes against the grain to explore the Irish literary traditions that preceded and influenced him--romantic 'national tales' in post-Union Ireland, the poetry and polemic of the Young Ireland movement, the occult novels of Sheridan LeFanu, and William Carleton's 'peasant fictions'.