"Yeats's Poetic Pose: A Dialectical Aesthetic" by Robert Roland Neuman
 

Date of Award

12-1968

Degree Type

Master's Essay - Restricted

Degree Name

Master of Arts (MA)

Department

English

First Advisor

J. Thale

Second Advisor

Joseph Schwartz

Abstract

Historically, the corpus of Yeats's poetry may be considered a lesson in the antithetical aesthetic directions of the poetry of the Victorian era -- an era which presented the social poets, Tennyson and Kipling, and the "antisocial" poets, the Pre - Raphaelites and the Aesthetes. His poetry, also, may be considered a lesson in the transition of poetry from the Victorian era to the early twentieth century, the poetic voice of which is found in the poetry of Eliot and Pound. Indeed, one can easily perceive the tension in Yeats 's early poems caused by the same motivations which forced Tennyson to bow to the demands of his poet- laureateship, or society, and urged the Aesthetes to give deference only to their own egocentric impulses. One can see, also, that the later poetry of Yeats exhibits the expanded aesthetic sensibility which marks twentieth century verse "modern."

Comments

An Essary submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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