The Edinburgh Companion to W. B. Yeats and the Arts

W. B. Yeats was a poet and cultural revolutionary who fostered artistic enterprises and engaged all the senses through literature, music, dance, and the visual, material, and theatrical arts. This volume offers new perspectives on his work, combining historical, conceptual, and disciplinary approaches.

Format: Hardback
Length: 512 pages
Publication date: 30 June 2024
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

W. B. Yeats was not only a poet but also a cultural revolutionary. A compulsive, restless collaborator, he fostered numerous artistic enterprises, from the Abbey Theatre to the Cuala Press, and pursued a variety of inter-artistic spaces and media. From childhood co-creations with his siblings to the arresting combinations of sound and movement in his late drama, his work repeatedly addresses and incorporates music, dance, and the visual, material, and theatrical arts with remarkable intensity. For him, literature was a vital thing that in one form or another engaged all the senses. This volume's newly commissioned chapters analyze afresh such engagements. Bringing together scholars of literature, aesthetics, and cultural history with specialists in drama, music, dance, and the visual arts, they provide an exciting range of historical, conceptual, and disciplinary perspectives.

Dimension: 244 x 170 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781474499668