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Poetry in the Modern State: the example of W.B. Yeats's 'Late Style' and 'New Fanaticism' (2014)
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Sheils, B. (2014). Poetry in the Modern State: the example of W.B. Yeats's 'Late Style' and 'New Fanaticism'. New Literary History, 45(3), 483-505. https://doi.org/10.1353/nlh.2014.0022

In this article I propose to connect Yeats’s “new fanaticism” and his “late style”—a term I have borrowed from Edward Said to describe the preposterous self-consciousness of the poet’s old age. There are two major aspects to my argument: first, that... Read More about Poetry in the Modern State: the example of W.B. Yeats's 'Late Style' and 'New Fanaticism'.