Yeats & American poetry : the tradition of the self /

Diggory, Terence, 1951-,

Yeats & American poetry : the tradition of the self / [print] Terence Diggory. - Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, (c)1983. - xix, 262 pages ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction: "The tradition of myself" -- An American tradition: Emerson, Poe, Thoreau, and Whitman -- A live tradition: Ezra Pound -- Natural speech: the nineteen-tens -- Artificial lives: the nineteen-twenties -- Public speech: the nineteen-thirties -- Private lives: the nineteen-forties -- Conclusion: The end of tradition.



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Yeats, W. B. 1865-1939 --Influence.


American poetry--History and criticism.--20th century
American poetry--Irish influences.
Poetry--Psychological aspects.

PS324 PS324.D573.Y438 1983