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Our secret discipline : Yeats and lyric form
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Our secret discipline : Yeats and lyric form

Author: Helen Vendler
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Named Person: W B Yeats
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Helen Vendler
ISBN: 9780674026957 0674026950
OCLC Number: 141188066
Description: xvii, 428 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Lyric form in Yeats's poetry : Prophecy, love, and revolution -- Antechamber and afterlife : Byzantium and the Delphic Oracle -- The puzzle of sequence : Two political poems -- "Magical" techniques in the early poems -- Tales, feelings, farewells : Three stages of the Yeatsian Ballad -- Troubling the tradition : Yeats at sonnets -- The nationalist measure : Trimeter-quatrain poems -- Marches and the examination of conscience : The tetrameter line -- The medium of instruction : Doctrine in blank verse -- The renaissance aura : Ottava Rima poems -- The spacious lyric : Long stanzas, irregular lines -- Primitivism and the grotesque : "Supernatural songs" -- Rare forms.
Responsibility: Helen Vendler.
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