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Words Alone : Yeats and His Inheritances by Robert Fitzroy Foster is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Words Alone : Yeats and His Inheritances about?
W. B. Yeats is usually seen as a great innovator who put his stamp so decisively on modern Irish literature that most of his successors worked in his shadow. R. F. Foster's eloquent and authoritative book weaves together literature and history to present an alternative perspective. By returning to the rich seed-bed of nineteenth-century Irish writing, Words Alone charts some of the influences, including romantic 'national tales' in post-Union Ireland, the poetry and polemic of the Young Ireland
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Robert Fitzroy Foster
- Publisher
- OUP Oxford
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780191620690
- Category
- work of literary fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Memoir
- Updated
- 2026-03-24
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