W. B. Yeats and the Language of Sculpture

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Jack Quin (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of English Literature, University of Birmingham)

W. B. Yeats and the Language of Sculpture

Jack Quin (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of English Literature, University of Birmingham)

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Oxford University Press
22 September 2022

Sculpture; Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Literary studies: poetry & poets; European history

This book comprehensively examines the relationship between literature and sculpture in the work of W. B. Yeats, drawing on extensive archival research to offer revelatory new readings of the poet. The book traces Yeats's literary and critical engagement with Celtic Revival statuary, public monuments in Dublin, the coin designs of the Irish Free State, abstract sculpture by the Vorticists and modernists, and a variety of carvings, decorative sculptures, and objets d'art. By charting Yeats's early art school education in Dublin, his attempts to raise funds for public monuments in the city, and to secure commissions for his favourite sculptors, the book documents a lifelong interest in the plastic arts. New and original readings of Yeats's poetry, drama, and prose criticism emerge from this concertedly inter-arts and interdisciplinary study.

By: Jack Quin (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow Department of English Literature University of Birmingham)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 1
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 165mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 496g
ISBN: 9780192843159
ISBN 10: 019284315X
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 22 September 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction 1: An Art School Education 2: The Politics of Public Monuments in Dublin 3: Senator Yeats and the Free State Coinage 4: Pound, Vorticism, and the Sculpture of Brancusi 5: Yeats's Late Sculptural Poetics Coda: Yeats's Epitaphs Appendix Bibliography

Jack Quin is a British Academy postdoctoral fellow in the Department of English Literature at the University of Birmingham. Before joining the department, he was a Government of Ireland fellow at Trinity College Dublin. He has published work on W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, John Hewitt, and others.