W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and the Poetry of Paradise
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Canto LXXXI
Canto XVII
Canto XX
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Delphic Oracle
Divine Language
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Earthly Paradise
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Ezra Pound
Happy Isles
Lake Isle
late
Late Cantos
literary modernism
manuscript studies
modernist conceptions of paradise
modernist poetry analysis
oracle
Past Tenses
poetic form innovation
religious symbolism
Shadowy Waters
steel
Steel Dust
Thou Lovest
Translunar Paradise
unwobbling
Unwobbling Pivot
Wandering Aengus
Wild Swans
Word Paradise
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Yeats's Early Verse
Yeats's Poems
Yeats's Work
Yeats’s Early Verse
Yeats’s Poems
Yeats’s Work
Young Man
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- ISBN 9781138383968
- Weight: 440g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 10 Sep 2018
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Emphasizing the interplay of aesthetic forms and religious modes, Sean Pryor's ambitious study takes up the endlessly reiterated longing for paradise that features throughout the works of W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound. Yeats and Pound define poetry in terms of paradise and paradise in terms of poetry, Pryor suggests, and these complex interconnections fundamentally shape the development of their art. Even as he maps the shared influences and intellectual interests of Yeats and Pound, and highlights those moments when their poetic theories converge, Pryor's discussion of their poems' profound formal and conceptual differences uncovers the distinctive ways each writer imagines the divine, the good, the beautiful, or the satisfaction of desire. Throughout his study, Pryor argues that Yeats and Pound reconceive the quest for paradise as a quest for a new kind of poetry, a journey that Pryor traces by analysing unpublished manuscript drafts and newly published drafts that have received little attention. For Yeats and Pound, the journey towards a paradisal poetic becomes a never-ending quest, at once self-defeating and self-fulfilling - a formulation that has implications not only for the work of these two poets but for the study of modernist literature.
Sean Pryor is Lecturer in Poetry and Poetics at the University of New South Wales, Australia.
