Wb Yeats And World Literature

Download or read book W.B. Yeats and World Literature written by Dr Barry Sheils and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-09-28 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing for a reconsideration of William Butler Yeats’s work in light of contemporary studies of world literature, Barry Sheils makes a strong case for reading Yeats’s work in the context of a broad comprehension of its global modernity. He shows how Yeats enables a fuller understanding of the relationship between the extensive map of world literary production and the intensities of poetic practice.