Shakespeare and the Modern Poet
- Author: Neil Corcoran, University of Liverpool
- Date Published: May 2010
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Shakespeare is a major influence on poets writing in English, but the dynamics of that influence in the twentieth century have never been as closely analysed as they are in this important study. More than an account of the ways in which Shakespeare is figured in both the poetry and the critical prose of modern poets, this book presents a provocative new view of poetic interrelationship. Focusing on W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, Neil Corcoran uncovers the relationships – combative as well as sympathetic – between these poets themselves as they are intertwined in their engagements with Shakespeare. Corcoran offers many enlightening close readings, fully alert to contemporary theoretical debates. This original study of influence and reception beautifully displays the nature of poetic influence – both of Shakespeare on the twentieth century, and among modern poets as they respond to Shakespeare.
Read more- A unique study of the influence of Shakespeare on Eliot, Yeats, Auden, Hughes and Plath
- Expert close readings of twentieth-century poems
- An original contribution to critical debates about how intertextual relations operate
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"This is a superbly written, immensely informative, and engaging study of the relationship of four modern poets - Yeats, Eliot, Auden, and Hughes - to Shakespeare, about whom all wrote extensively. Although it begins with a genealogy of the theory of influence, tracked from Ellman to Bloom to Kristeva and beyond, it quickly exceeds that parameter, as well as the expanded template proposed by Corcoran himself of corroboration, competition, appropriation, negotiation, and collaboration. It might be more accurate to describe the book as a rendering of four increasingly intense and consuming phases of courtship."
Shakespeare QuarterlySee more reviews"This book is an outstanding achievement, full of brilliant readings of both important careers and individual poems, and written in a lucid, acute and witty style. It is both accessible to the undergraduate and informative for the expert. It is deeply sympathetic with its subjects, and yet always judicious and cold-eyed in its appraisals. It is the work of a critic writing at the height of his powers."
Justin Quinn, Charles University, Prague"Full of insightful and often powerful close reading of both the poetry and criticism … The best literary analysis turns one back to the poems; this book also encourages one to return, fresh-eyed, to each poet’s critical insights."
The Times Literary Supplement"… few will better Neil Corcoran's penetrating, elegantly written, and sharply argued Shakespeare and the Modern Poet."
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- Date Published: May 2010
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9780511740879
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I. Yeats's Shakespeare:
1. Setting a sail for shipwreck: Yeats's Shakespeare criticism
2. Myself must I remake: Shakespeare in Yeats's poetry
Part II. Eliot's Shakespeare:
3. That man's scope: Eliot's Shakespeare criticism
4. This man's gift: Shakespeare in Eliot's poetry
Part III. Auden's Shakespeare:
5. A plenum of experience: Auden's Shakespeare criticism
6. The reality of the mirror: Shakespeare in Auden's poetry
Part IV. Ted Hughes's Shakespeare:
7. A language of the common bond
8. The Shakespearean moment
9. Survivor of cease: Shakespeare and Sylvia Plath in Ted Hughes's poems.
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