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Start Over Topic charming billy (book) Topic poetry (literary form) Publication Year Range Last 10 years Journal papers on language & literature
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1. "Too Much Yeats": Alice McDermott's Charming Billy and an Irish Poet's American Legacy.

Author

MYERS, NATHAN

Subjects
*LITERARY criticism, *IMPRESSIONISM (Literature), *POETRY (Literary form)
Abstract

The article focuses on the poetry of Irish Poet W. B. Yeats in Alice McDermott's book "Charming Billy." Topics discussed include relation between Yeat's poetry and the character Billy's life, truth of Billy's life and charges of life lived in fancy, in alcohol and Yeats and embellished memory that has affected many Irish Americans.

Published
2016