W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, and the Poetry of Paradise

Emphasizing the interplay of aesthetic forms and religious modes, Sean Pryor''s ambitious study takes up the endlessly reiterated longing for paradise that features throughout the works of W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound. Yeats and Pound define poetry in terms of paradise and paradise in terms of poetry, Pryor suggests, and these complex interconnections fundamentally shape the development of their art...