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Our secret discipline : Yeats and lyric form
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- Creator
- Helen Vendler
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007
- Physical Details
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- xvii, 428 pages ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780674026957, 0674026950
- OCLC
- ocn141188066
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 381-418) and index.
- 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