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The Gaelic Twilight and Poetics of W. B. Yeats

Author Name: Samiran Kumar Paul | Format: Paperback | Genre : Literature & Fiction | Other Details

This book explores the question of Yeats’s identity as an important issue in the criticism of the Irish poet. The identity of the poet with the advent of postcolonial theory into Irish studies in general and Yeats’s studies in particular, this controversial issue has gained new dimensions. Whether Yeats was a revolutionary and anti-colonial nationalist or a poet with unionist and colonialist inclinations has been the subject of much debate and less agreement. One can justify any of these versions of Yeats by concentrating on some of his works and utterances and ignoring some others. However, this will result in an incomplete and partial picture of a complex, multidimensional, and ever-changing poet such as Yeats.

It explores the different aspects of W. B. Yeats’s poetic theory and political ideology. It also studies Yeats’s modernity and influences on his contemporaries as well as successors, such as T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and W. B. Aden. Though three common themes in Yeats’ poetry are love, Irish nationalism and mysticism, modernism is the overriding theme in his writings. Yeats started his long literary career as a romantic poet and gradually evolved into a modernist poet. As a typical modern poet, he regrets the post-war modern world, which is now in disorder and chaotic tuition and laments the past. 

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Samiran Kumar Paul

Samiran Kumar Paul is a poet, writer and philosopher. His credit lies in a long teaching experience in the university and his regular and continued contribution to English magazines, academic journals, and newspapers. He has published over seventeen books in English. He has been a natural creative writer since his early childhood. He has written books in different genres of English. He has worked as a freelance columnist and analyst since 1982. He is a multi-lingual poet. He has contributed to Bengali, Hindi and English journals. He loves creations in nature’s presence and accompaniment. For his book on Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali, he was awarded three prestigious national awards such as “Rabindra Samman” in 2011, “Bharat Gaurav” in 2015 and “Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar Samman” in 2020. He is a popular blog writer. His blogs may be visited: www.drskpaulstutorials.com

He believes in magic and the power of words and expressions. Knowledge is not to contradict others but to seek a device to merge with the cosmic world with full awareness of the present, the past and the future. He currently works as Professor and Head of the Department of English, B. R. A. Bihar University. He also studies ethnography, anthropology and social history to identify race with region. 

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