1st Edition

Yeats and Pessoa Parallel Poetic Styles

By Patricia Silva-McNeill Copyright 2010
194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

This monograph is the study of the poetry of Fernando Pessoa and W. B. Yeats within a comparative case studies framework. It examines Yeats's and Pessoa's use of stylistic variation to transform their incipient neo-Romantic and post-Symbolist diction into a protean modern lyric voice.

Introduction 1. Post-Symbolist Style in the Early Poetry 2. Neo-Paganism and the Pastoral Style 3. Literary Nationalism and the Epic-Heroic Style 4. Dramatic Poetics 5. The Metaphysical Aesthetic 6. Conclusion

Biography

Patricia Silva-McNeill