Yeats (Galaxy Book 378)

Review

"Beautiful, radical, and un-reductive....The disturbing, vivid quality of Bloom's book comes from [the] creative clash of opposed imaginations, and it involves the reader in emphatic excitement at a very deep level."--Ann Wordsworth, The Spectator"Controversial and memorable....Yeats has a freshness and sharpness, an originality, which is a rare virtue in studies of Yeats....This is one of the few books of a purely critical kind on Yeats that...deserves to rank as a classic."--Times Literary Supplement"The best book on Yeats yet written....No previous critic of Yeats has had anything like Bloom's encyclopedic command and eidetic recall of the English Romantic tradition....Unlikely to be superseded....Yeats has at last found his proper...critic in Bloom."--Helen Vendler, Journal of English and Germanic Philology"The best book on Yeats yet written....It [contains] a brilliant and comprehensive account...of Yeats' connections to Romanticism, above all, of his debts to Blake, Shelley, and Keats....No previous critic of Yeats has had anything like Bloom's encyclopedic command and eidetic recall of the English Romantic tradition....Unlikely to be superseded....Yeats has at last found his proper...critic in Bloom."--Helen Vendler, Journal of English and Germanic Philology"[Bloom] is one of the most nearly omniscient students of the Romantics we have, and his knowledge of Yeats has a similar spaciousness."--Kenneth Connelly, The Yale Review"Anyone studying or teaching modern poetry will be using this book for decades."--John Hollander, Poetry

Book Description

Harold Bloom is Sterling Professor of Humanities at Yale University. He is the author of many books, including Agon: Towards a Theory of Revisionism, The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry, and Wallace Stevens: The Poems of Our Climate, and co-editor with Lionel Trilling of Romantic Poetry and Prose and Victorian Poetry and Prose.