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    Yeats's Poetic Codes by Grene, Nicholas;

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    • Publisher OUP Oxford
    • Date of Publication 12 June 2008

    • ISBN 9780199234776
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages260 pages
    • Size 225x145x25 mm
    • Weight 459 g
    • Language English
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    Short description:

    A new approach to Yeats's poems, concentrating on the reading experience itself. By picking out the distinctive 'codes' of Yeats's poetic practice, such as his use of dates and place names, characteristic vocabulary, and stylistic preferences, Grene's study will send readers back to the work with a new sense of understanding and enjoyment.

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    Long description:

    Nicholas Grene explores Yeats's poetic codes of practice, the key words and habits of speech that shape the reading experience of his poetry. Where previous studies have sought to decode his work, expounding its symbolic meanings by references to Yeats's occult beliefs, philosophical ideas or political ideology, the focus here is on his poetic technique, its typical forms and their implications for the understanding of the poems. Grene is concerned with the distinctive stylistic signatures of the Collected Poems: the use of dates and place names within individual poems; the handling of demonstratives and of grammatical tense and mood; certain nodal Yeatsian words ('dream', 'bitter', 'sweet') and images (birds and beasts); dialogue and monologue as the voices of his dramatic lyrics. The aim throughout is to illustrate the shifting and unstable movement between lived reality and transcendental thought in Yeats, the embodied quality of his poetry between a phenomenal world of sight and an imagined world of vision.

    ... listens in to the poetry on the page, and enriches its import by acts of steady, sensitive attention to the poet's recurrent use of certain words and expressions.

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    Table of Contents:

    Introduction
    Dates
    This and that, here and there
    Dream
    Place names
    Beasts and birds
    Tense and mood
    Voices
    Bitter/sweet
    Conclusion: ... but half...
    Bibliography
    Index of poems discussed
    General Index

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