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In this new study Edward Larrissy seeks to examine the relationship between Yeats's divided Anglo-Irish inheritance and his aesthetic. The difference in the title is primarily cultural difference, but it does also refer to deconstructionist differance as providing one possible way of thinking about the acute sense of division palpable in Yeats's poems at the very point where he seeks unity of being. In pursuit of these topics Larrissy seeks to illustrate an overall movement in Yeats's work: initially, Yeats thought of himself as an intermediary between Eternal Beauty, which has Celtic affinities, and measure which may be mechanical if not handled correctly and hence is associated with the cosmopolitan or English. This fresh examination of his major poems owes much to modern critical theory, with a study of the poet's historical position showing the strength of Gaelic influences upon him. When Yeats starts to celebrate his Anglo-Irish ancestry, reacting against his own early work, he also begins to feel more marginal to the development of Irish society and there is a corresponding tendency to value qualities of firm outline in his poetry which had earlier been seen as too sternly me

Author

Edward Larrissy; Professor of English Literature Edward Larrissy

Publisher

Harvester Wheatsheaf

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780133207064