Callaghan, M. (2017) ‘Chosen Comrades’: Yeats’s Romantic Rhymes. Romanticism, 23 (2). pp. 155-165. ISSN 1354-991X
Abstract
Yeats’s acute sense of the poet’s labour, a labour that makes rhyme one of those ‘befitting emblems of adversity’ (‘My House’, Meditations in Time of Civil War, 30) energises his poetry. Rather than constricting poetry, rhyme can engender, if paradoxically, a kind of freedom for the poet; Yeats’s choice of form reveals his Romantic influences while demonstrating his independence. Encompassing examples from Blake, Byron, Keats, and Shelley, this essay shows how Yeats learns from his chosen influences even as his mastery over their forms sponsors his ‘ghostly solitude’ (‘Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen’, 40). From his experimentation with trimeter to ottava rima and terza rima, Yeats’s formal dexterity places rhyme centre stage where he emerges as a resolutely individual poet.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 Edinburgh University Press. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Romanticism. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Yeats; poetry; rhyme; Romanticism; influence; poetics |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Sheffield) > School of English (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 16 Mar 2016 10:06 |
Last Modified: | 01 Aug 2017 22:53 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.3366/rom.2017.0322 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.3366/rom.2017.0322 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:96425 |