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| Titre : | W.B. Yeats : Snobbery as Mood and Mode (2004) |
| Auteurs : | Richard HASLAM, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Etudes irlandaises (Vol 29 n 1 2004) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 55-72 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | This essay explores snobbery as both a mood and a stylistic mode of the poetical, critical and autobiographical writings of W.B.Yeats. In seeking to answer the question "What kind of snob was Yeats?" the essay examines three stages of his career: (i) his apprenticeship as a writer, during which Lionel Johnson and John O'Leary were crucial role models; (ii) his frustration and hesitation during 1909 and 1910, when Maud Gonne married John Macbride, and Yeats quarrelled with Lady Gregory; and (iii) the period during which he produced acclaimed poems like "Meru" and "Vacillation". Throughout these stages, Yeats wrestled with doubts about his social status, and principally with the question of whether or not it was possible for a professional writer to be or become a gentleman. It is this tension that generates the passionate grammar of many of his mature poems |
| Pays de publication : | France |
| Lieu de publication : | Villeneuve d'Ascq |
| Mention de responsabilité : | Richard Haslam |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
