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Yeats as Precursor

Name: Yeats as Precursor
Author: Steven Matthews
ISBN: 9780312229306

by Steven Matthews

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Overview

As both a late Romantic and a modern, W.B. Yeats has proved to be perhaps the most influential poet of the early twentieth-century. In this original study, Steven Matthews traces, through close readings of significant poems, the flow of Yeatsian influence across time and cultural space. By engaging with formalist criticism, he also considers Yeats's significance as founding presence within the major poetry criticism of the century.