Product Description: Poetry and Contemporary Culture: The Question of Value addresses the place of poetry through the cultural institutions and practices which mediate our sense of its value, from anthologies and academia to film and the Internet. Attention is also given to the role of political ideologies and local, national and ethnic identities in the formation of poetic values...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Selected works by William Butler Yeats appear alongside original artwork depicting the major themes of the poems.

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Product Description: There are as many versions of W. B. Yeats as there are readers of his work: he is the poet of totalitarian force for some, the cultural nationalist and agent of decolonization for others; he is the elegist of the Anglo-Irish, yet also the witness of transcendental vision...read more