Recovering a lost literary movement that was the most consuming preoccupationof W. B. Yeats's literary life, Ronald Schuchard's book provides an historical, biographical, and critical reconstruction of the poet's attempt to restore an oral tradition by reviving the bardic arts of chanting and musical speech. INDICE: Preface; 1: Bardic Forefathers; 2: London Minstrels; 3: Dublin Minstrels; 4: Minstrels and Masquers; 5: Dancers and Choruses; 6: A Spiritual Democracy; 7: Minstrel Abroad; 8: 'As Regarding Rhythm': Minstrels and Imagists; 9: Modern Minstrels; 10: The Last Minstrel; Appendix 1: Florence Farr, 'TheChanting of Poems' (1905); Appendix 2: Florence Farr, 'Music and Words' (1906); Appendix 3: Edmund Dulac, 'Music and Poetry' (1937)
- ISBN: 978-0-19-959650-8
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 500
- Fecha Publicación: 25/11/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés