"Man has created death", wrote Yeats, and in this book Jahan Ramazani argues that the effort to create and recreate death is the major impulse of Yeats' poetry. According to Ramazani, death was Yeats' muse, and his best poems are his vexed meditations on loss, ruin, and oblivion. Ramazanu reviews Yeats' elegies, his self-elegies, and his poems in the sublime mode, as well as his work in such related modes as love lyric and prophecy, carpe diem and the curse. Balancing genre criticism with close revisionist readings of ...
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"Man has created death", wrote Yeats, and in this book Jahan Ramazani argues that the effort to create and recreate death is the major impulse of Yeats' poetry. According to Ramazani, death was Yeats' muse, and his best poems are his vexed meditations on loss, ruin, and oblivion. Ramazanu reviews Yeats' elegies, his self-elegies, and his poems in the sublime mode, as well as his work in such related modes as love lyric and prophecy, carpe diem and the curse. Balancing genre criticism with close revisionist readings of individual poems, he traces interrelations between the lyrics and the traditions that inspired them. Ramazani interprets the psychological, ontological, and rhetorical patterns and intricacies of the poet's responses to the "great night". He analyzes Yeats' contributions to the Romantic and modern poetry of death by drawing on a variety of theorists, including Freud and Heidegger, Levi-Strauss and Blanchot, Adorno and de Man.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. Presentation copy: "For....., With warm thanks for inspiring me to read Freud, Nietzsche, and Heidegger-inspiration that made this project possible, Jahan." (Signed on the half-title). The dust jacket is protected by a Brodart mylar cover and is not clipped. Not an ex-library copy. No names or marks in the text. Most books shipped within 24 hours. All books mailed with Delivery Confirmation in a heavy cardboard box. Very good condition in very good dust jacket. Selling Used and Rare books on line since April 1998 and from our bookstore in the heart of the Bluegrass since 1984.; 8vo.; xi, 244 pages; Signed by Author.
Add this copy of Yeats and the Poetry of Death: Elegy, Self-Elegy, and to cart. $93.18, new condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1990 by Yale University Press.