Modern poetry and ethnography : Yeats, Frost, Warren, Heaney, and the poet as anthropologist /
Sean Heuston.
- 1st ed
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- 195 p.
HKBU Library
"Modern Poetry and Ethnography: Yeats, Frost, Warren, Heaney, and the Poet as Anthropologist maps a new approach to the works of W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, Robert Penn Warren, and Seamus Heaney. Heuston analyzes the ways the works of each writer represent and explain a country or region (Ireland for Yeats, New England for Frost, the American South for Warren, and Northern Ireland for Heaney) as if the writers were anthropologists or ethnographers. This project argues provocatively that literary critics can benefit greatly from the insights and theories of anthropology and ethnography"--
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English poetry--Irish authors--History and criticism. Literature and anthropology. English poetry--History and criticism.--19th century English poetry--History and criticism.--20th century American poetry--History and criticism.--19th century American poetry--History and criticism.--20th century American poetry--Irish American authors. Anthropology in literature. Ethnology in literature.