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ANTHONY BRADLEY Professor of English at the University of Vermont, USA.

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Zusammenfassung
An important part of the national imaginary, Yeat's work has helped to invent the nation of Ireland, while critiquing the modern state that emerged from it'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.

Inhalt
Romantic Ireland': The Early Poems and Plays Poems, Paintings, and the Newspaper: Nation and Class in Responsibilities Anglo-Irish Pastoral, War, and Revolution: The Wild Swans at Coole, Michael Robartes and the Dancer W. B. Yeats and the Angel of History: The Tower, The Winding Stair and Other Poems Modernism, Fascism, and Irish Nationalism: New Poems, Last Poems Taking Its Place among the Nations: Ireland and Irish Poetry after Yeats