Arguing for a reconsideration of William Butler Yeatsrsquo;s work in the light of contemporary studies of world literature; Barry Sheils shows how reading Yeats enables a fuller understanding of the relationship between the extensive map of world literary production and the intensities of poetic practice. Yeatsrsquo;s appropriation of Japanese Noh theatre; his promotion of translations of Rabindranath Tagore and Shri Purohit SwAtilde;pound;mi; and his repeated ventures into American culture signalled his commitment to moving beyond Europe for his literary reference points. Sheils suggests that a reexamination of the transnational character of Yeatss work provides an opportunity to reflect critically on the cosmopolitan assumptions of world literature; as well as on the politics of modernist translation. Through a series of close and contextual readings; the book demonstrates how continuing global debates around the crises of economic liberalism and democracy; fanaticism; asymmetric violence; and bioethics were reflected in the poets formal and linguistic concerns. Challenging orthodox readings of Yeats as a late-romantic nationalist; W.B. Yeats and World Literature: The Subject of Poetry makes a compelling case for reading Yeatsrsquo;s work in the context of its global modernity.
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