Modern Poetry and Ethnography : Yeats, Frost, Warren, Heaney, and the Poet As Anthropologist

This study maps a new approach to the works of W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, Robert Penn Warren, and Seamus Heaney. Sean Heuston combines interdisciplinary analysis, specifically ethnography, with close reading, and in so doing argues provocatively for the intersection of modern poetry studies and contemporary ethnographic theory. Sean Heustonanalyzes the works of W.B. Yeats, Robert Frost, Robert Penn Warren, and Seamus Heaney throughinterdisciplinary analysis, specifically ethnography, in order to argue provocatively for the intersection of modern poetry studies and contemporary ethnographic theory "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"-- Provided by publisher Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction....Pages 1-12 Off with the Fairies....Pages 13-49 The Virtue of Fact and the Truth of Fiction....Pages 51-78 “I Knew That World”....Pages 79-119 Making Strange....Pages 121-157 Back Matter....Pages 159-195