{"product_id":"running-to-paradise-yeatss-poetic-art","title":"Running to Paradise: Yeats's Poetic Art","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eRunning to Paradise: Yeats's Poetic Art\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eM L Rosenthal\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780195113914\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eOxford University Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1997\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eRunning to Paradise\u003c\/em\u003e, M.L. Rosenthal, hailed by the \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e as \"one of the most important critics of twentieth-century poetry,\" leads us through the lyric poetry and poetic drama of our century's greatest poet in English. His readings shed new, vivid light on Yeats's daring uses of tradition, his love poetry, and the way he faced the often tragic realities of revolution and civil war. \u003cem\u003eRunning to Paradise\u003c\/em\u003e describes Yeats's whole effort--sometimes leavened by wild humor--to convey, with high poetic integrity, his passionate sense of his own life and of his chaotic era.\u003cbr\u003e Himself a noted poet, Rosenthal stresses Yeats's artistry and psychological candor. The book ranges from his early exquisite lyrical poems and folklore-rooted plays, through the tougher-minded, more confessional mature work (including the sublime achievement of \u003cem\u003eThe Tower\u003c\/em\u003e), and then to the sometimes \"mad\" yet often brilliant tragic or comic writing of his last years. Quoting extensively from Yeats, Rosenthal charts the gathering force with which the poet confronted his major life-issues: his art's demands, his persistent but hopeless love for one woman, the complexities of marriage to another woman at age 52, and his distress during Ireland's \"Troubles.\" Yeats's deep absorption in female sensibility, in the cycles of history and human thought, and in supernaturalism and \"the dead\" comes strongly into play as well.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Running to Paradise: Yeats's Poetic Art | M L Rosenthal | Paperback | 9780195113914 | Used: Very Good | Literary Criticism 1604131","offer_id":48742202802328,"sku":"1604131","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71jL4hsrBKL.jpg?v=1773850119","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/running-to-paradise-yeatss-poetic-art","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}