Yeats and English Renaissance LiteraturePalgrave Macmillan UK, 1991 M07 18 - 308 pages This book is the first to make extensive use of unpublished manuscripts to show how a period of English literature affected W.B.Yeats's development as a poet. Besides presenting a factual account of his acquaintance with English Renaissance writers based on evidence from his library and elsewhere, the study examines his response to numerous minor figures and several major ones - including Spenser, Jonson, Shakespeare, Donne and Milton. |
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Page 143
... Donne's supposed ' unified sensibility ' ( Eliot's phrase ) . It arose from a synthesis that made rigid Yeats's antagonism to Donne's eighteenth - century detractors , despite his tacit acceptance of at least one of their observations ...
... Donne's supposed ' unified sensibility ' ( Eliot's phrase ) . It arose from a synthesis that made rigid Yeats's antagonism to Donne's eighteenth - century detractors , despite his tacit acceptance of at least one of their observations ...
Page 145
... Donne's work failed to attract Yeats's attention until comparatively late , the Irish poet was long an admirer of Donne's natural - sounding poetic voice and his racy contrapuntal image - making ability . In particular , Donne's lyric ...
... Donne's work failed to attract Yeats's attention until comparatively late , the Irish poet was long an admirer of Donne's natural - sounding poetic voice and his racy contrapuntal image - making ability . In particular , Donne's lyric ...
Page 161
... Donne's verse epistles , or ' Letters to Severall Person- ages ' , was evidently left uncut ( and thus unread ) , Yeats did examine the notes on them ( in vol . 1 ) in keeping with his biographical interest in the Donne - Herbert ...
... Donne's verse epistles , or ' Letters to Severall Person- ages ' , was evidently left uncut ( and thus unread ) , Yeats did examine the notes on them ( in vol . 1 ) in keeping with his biographical interest in the Donne - Herbert ...
Contents
Tradition Imitation and the Synthesis of Content | 1 |
Summoning | 31 |
Form Philosophy and Pictorialism | 68 |
Copyright | |
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