Reframing Yeats

<i>Reframing Yeats</i> the first critical study of its kind uses a focus on genre and allusion to engage with a broad range of W. B. Yeats's writings examining instances of his poetry autobiographical writings criticism and drama. <br/><br/>Identifying a schism in recent Yeatsian criticism between biographical and formalist methodologies Armstrong's study combines an historicist perspective with close attention to literary form. The result is a flexible approach that casts new light on how Yeats's texts interact with their interpretative frameworks. <br/><br/>Cognizant of both literary and political history this book presents new interpretations of Yeats's work. Not only does it provide fresh readings of texts such as The Municipal Gallery Re-visited Among School Children and The Resurrection but it also raises important new questions concerning Yeats's relationship to Modernism and literary genre.