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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (3): 396–404.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Peter McDonald Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form , by Vendler Helen , Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2007 . 428 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Peter McDonald Reviews Hearing the “Whoosh”: Listening to Yeats’s Lyrics Our Secret Discipline...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (2): 137–168.
Published: 01 June 2001
...Rob Doggett Copyright © Hofstra University 2001 H I Writing Out (of) Chaos: Constructions of History in Yeats’s “Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen” and “Meditations in Time of Civil War” Rob Doggett The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (2): 174–190.
Published: 01 June 2002
... Irish” (Poems1 589). By his own account, Yeats struck out in this new poetic direction largely at the urging of the returned Fenian exile John O’Leary, even though such a move meant leaving behind “Arcady and the India of romance,” which up until then he had “preferred to all countries...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (4): 391–413.
Published: 01 December 2005
... throughout both A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Ulysses than the love Stephen associates with Yeats. Stephen’s juvenile love lyrics may resemble Yeats’s early verse, but readers know that if Stephen is destined to metamorphose into a great writer, that writer will more likely resemble...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (3): 405–413.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Randi Saloman The Passions of Modernism: Eliot, Yeats, Woolf, and Mann , by Cuda Anthony , Columbia : University of South Carolina Press , 2010 . 235 pages. Modernism, Memory, and Desire: T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf , by McIntire Gabrielle , Cambridge : Cambridge...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (1): 118–127.
Published: 01 March 2015
... from tapped, and another measure of the success of his project is that it will no doubt stimulate more scholarship on the topic. The function of pilgrimage, for example—which Query briefly touches upon in his study of Eliot and W. B. Yeats—is particularly tantalizing. More surely remains to be said...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2011) 57 (2): 255–263.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Jacob Hovind I Do I Undo I Redo: The Textual Genesis of Modernist Selves in Hopkins, Yeats, Conrad, Forster, Joyce, and Woolf , by Fordham Finn , Oxford University Press . 2010 . 281 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2011 Review Reviews Modernism’s Two Versions...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (4): 513–519.
Published: 01 December 2020
... offers graceful readings of pandemic traces in three canonical modernist works: Virginia Woolf’s Mrs Dalloway (1925), T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922), and W. B. Yeats’s “The Second Coming” (1919). In true modernist style, her readings make new again Woolf’s narrative texture, Eliot’s fragments...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (1): 181–188.
Published: 01 March 2013
... and W. B. Yeats. Spencer is as suspicious of the post- which prefixes modernism as he is of the one in postcolonialism, arguing that neither has truly passed away and, taking his cue from Rebecca Walkowitz’s Cosmopolitan Style (2007), contends that the modernist movement marked the beginnings...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (3): 405–413.
Published: 01 September 2014
... never had a functional definition (5). Poetry and Its Others, Ramazani’s fifth book, explores the borderlands between poetry and other genres to see where, and how, poetry defines itself. In each of his books since the first,Yeats and the Poetry of Death (1990), Ramazani has gradually...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (3): 393–400.
Published: 01 September 2009
... of Yeats’s  birth in 1865, I immersed myself in the Clar- endon Press file of his Oxford Book of Modern Verse (1936) and wrote a piece on ‘Yeats as Anthologist’. His brilliant polemical 395 Guy Cuthbertson Introduction to the Oxford Book introduced me to my favourite...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (3): 353–363.
Published: 01 September 2022
..., but to consider that Ireland’s experience as an island is more complex than models of imperial subjection or national recovery can alone account for. In Ireland, says Allen, “the sea is never far away, and with it the world” (25). Hence, even in national literary projects such as W. B. Yeats’s, we find near...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (3): 292–323.
Published: 01 September 2002
.... The volume repre­ sents M acNeice’s not always successful attempts to clarify his poetic and his poetry. Such self-conscious endeavor is also evident in “Poetry To­ day,” which cites Spender as an influence while remaining cautious about the more intimidating precedents set by Yeats...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2015) 61 (2): 272–279.
Published: 01 June 2015
...Ben Leubner James Merrill: Life and Art , by Hammer Langdon , New York : Knopf , 2015 . 944 pages. “The intellect of man is forced to choose/Perfection of the life, or of the work,” wrote Yeats toward the end of his life. It’s a choice that Merrill never made. He opted, instead...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (4): 414–436.
Published: 01 December 2005
... the equally symbolic tradition of canonized literature. O ’Brien’s use of Auden is significant in that it links us to a tradition in which the representative poet of one generation (Yeats) is succeeded by another (Auden) and to a poem (“In Memory of W. B. Yeats”) that symbolically transforms...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2018) 64 (4): 504–510.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Enda Duffy Works Cited Sherry Vincent . 2015 . Modernism and the Reinvention of Decadence . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Yeats W. B. 2002 . The Yeats Reader: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Prose . Edited by Finneran Richard J. . New York...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (1): 130–136.
Published: 01 March 2009
... Volcano (1987), and most surprisingly James Longen- bach’s Stone Cottage: Pound, Yeats, and Modernism (1988). Moody explains that his list of writing by others includes only works that are referred to frequendy. But that only compounds the problem of a selective attention to previous scholarship...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2022) 68 (2): 235–240.
Published: 01 June 2022
... oeuvre is admirable. The difficulty of locating his writing in traditional historic and periodic categories might explain why, until now, he has been relegated to genre studies. Nevertheless, some readers may chafe at the marginalization of established modernists here. For instance, Yeats scholars...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (1): 80–113.
Published: 01 March 2009
... does it explain his appreciation and impresario support for poetics employing the paradigmatic and the logopoeic, such as Yeats’s, H.D.’s, and Eliot’s. 81 Jason M. Coats Instead, I suggest we historicize Pound’s use of the term rhetoric in his postwar prose by examining it as a situated...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (3): 239–267.
Published: 01 September 2004
... of “Shuts on it” evokes Yeats’s sense that when a poem is finished it “comes right with a click like a closing box” (Letters 24),13 but that formal satisfaction does not compensate for the sense of loss with which the poem ends. The pearl’s extraction depends on the oyster’s death...