Bradley, Anthony, 1942-
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
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Part of the series New directions in Irish and Irish American literature;New directions in Irish and Irish American literature.
Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-245) and index.
• Romantic Ireland : the early poems and plays (1885-1910) — Poems, paintings, and the newspaper: nation and class in Responsibilities (1914) — Anglo-Irish pastoral, war, and revolution: The Wild Swans at Coole (1919), Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) — W.B. Yeats and the angel of history: The Tower (1928), The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933) — Modernism, Fascism and Irish nationalism: New Poems (1938), Last poems (1939) — Taking its place among the nations: Ireland and Irish poetry after Yeats.
• An important part of the Irish national imaginary, Yeat’s poems and plays have helped to invent the nation of Ireland, while critiquing the modern Irish state that emerged from the nation’s revolutionary period. This study offers a chronological account of Yeat’s volumes of poetry, contextualizing and analyzing them in light of Irish cultural and political history. — Provided by publisher.

Subjects:

• Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 — Political and social views.
• Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 — Criticism and interpretation.
• Politics and literature — Ireland — History — 20th century.
• Politics and literature — Ireland — History — 19th century.
• Nationalism and literature — Ireland — History.
• Modernism (Literature) — Ireland.
• Ireland — In literature.

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