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• Winner of ACIS Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature 2009.
• Winner of Winner of the Tenth Annual Robert Rhodes Prize for Books on Literature 2009 and received an honorable mention by the Modernist Studies Association's 2009 committee.

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...in this extraordinary book, something previously regarded as a minor aspect of Yeat's antiquarian oddity turns out, rather amazingly, to be central to the development of poetry in the early 20th century. THES,

provides a detailed and fascinating narrative ... insightful and meticulously researched ... The LastMinstrels: Yeats and the Revival of the Bardic Arts is essential to our understanding of modern literature and of W. B. Yeats. This is an impressive capstone work that only a scholar of Schuchard's stature, skills, and background in Yeats, Eliot, and modern literature could have written. Mary Helen Thuente, Modern Philology ...in this extraordinary book, something previously regarded as a minor aspect of Yeat's antiquarian oddity turns out, rather amazingly, to be central to the development of poetry in the early 20th century. THES There is no doubt that this book represents an important contribution to Yeats studies, and opens up interesting avenues of scholarship when it comes to the story of modernist poetry. No doubt too that it is meticulously researched, and written in a fine and engaging style, combining a handsome biographical sweep with an economic turning of minutiae Adrian Paterson, Notes and Queries The Last Minstrels is quite an accomplished piece of literary history. Schuchard unearths an impressive wealth of information from a wide variety of sources. Wim Van Mierlo, English Schuchard's book is a rare thing: a combination of exhaustive, meticulous scholarship... It is impossible to do justice here to the breadth, depth, and sheer erudition of Schuchard's research Marjorie Howes, Irish Literary Supplement both a monumental work of impeccable scholarship and a compelling narrative Marjorie Howes, Irish Literary Supplement In Ronald Schuchard's sharply focused piece of literary biography and history, Yeats's image gets just the kind of make-over that he himself would have wanted English Studies an essential resource for understanding the early modernist milieu in London and Dublin. Frances Dickey, Essays in Criticism this graceful and scholarly book affirmsthe importance of music and the great 'other' in Yeat's imagination. Harry White, Music & Letters

...in this extraordinary book, something previously regarded as a minor aspect of Yeat's antiquarian oddity turns out, rather amazingly, to be central to the development of poetry in the early 20th century. THES There is no doubt that this book represents an important contribution to Yeats studies, and opens up interesting avenues of scholarship when it comes to the story of modernist poetry. No doubt too that it is meticulously researched, and written in a fine and engaging style, combining a handsome biographical sweep with an economic turning of minutiae Adrian Paterson, Notes and Queries The Last Minstrels is quite an accomplished piece of literary history. Schuchard unearths an impressive wealth of information from a wide variety of sources. Wim Van Mierlo, English Schuchard's book is a rare thing: a combination of exhaustive, meticulous scholarship... It is impossible to do justice here to the breadth, depth, and sheer erudition of Schuchard's research Marjorie Howes, Irish Literary Supplement both a monumental work of impeccable scholarship and a compelling narrative Marjorie Howes, Irish Literary Supplement In Ronald Schuchard's sharply focused piece of literary biography and history, Yeats's image gets just the kind of make-over that he himself would have wanted English Studies

...in this extraordinary book, something previously regarded as a minor aspect of Yeat's antiquarian oddity turns out, rather amazingly, to be central to the development of poetry in the early 20th century. THES There is no doubt that this book represents an important contribution to Yeats studies, and opens up interesting avenues of scholarship when it comes to the story of modernist poetry. No doubt too that it is meticulously researched, and written in a fine and engaging style, combining a handsome biographical sweep with an economic turning of minutiae Adrian Paterson, Notes and Queries The Last Minstrels is quite an accomplished piece of literary history. Schuchard unearths an impressive wealth of information from a wide variety of sources. Wim Van Mierlo, English

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Ronald Schuchard is Goodrich C. White Professor of English at Emory University. He has written widely on modern literature, particularly on W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot. He is a former director of the Yeats International Summer School in Sligo and has co-edited three volumes of The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats (OUP). He has edited Eliot's Clark and Turnball Lectures as The Varieties of Metaphysical Poetry (Faber), and he is author of the award-winning Eliot's Dark Angel (OUP). In 2006 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to begin editing the multi-volume Complete Prose of T. S. Eliot.

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