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Renaissance LiteraturePalgrave Macmillan UK, 1991 M07 18 - 308 pages This book is the first to make extensive use of unpublished manuscripts to show how a period of English literature affected W.B.Yeats's development as a poet.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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... Platonic love ( a complex abstraction applied to a female love - object in Neoplatonic tradition ) exists when a lover beholds and fashions ' An heavenly beauty to his fancies will , / And it embracing in his mind entyre , / The mirrour ...
... Platonic love ( a complex abstraction applied to a female love - object in Neoplatonic tradition ) exists when a lover beholds and fashions ' An heavenly beauty to his fancies will , / And it embracing in his mind entyre , / The mirrour ...
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... Platonic - seeming mystery , the double meaning of the infinitive ' to do ' becomes clearer . In draft , the trouble began at the midway point , just as Yeats seized upon the conceit of the sieve ( a leaky vas or Platonic frustra ...
... Platonic - seeming mystery , the double meaning of the infinitive ' to do ' becomes clearer . In draft , the trouble began at the midway point , just as Yeats seized upon the conceit of the sieve ( a leaky vas or Platonic frustra ...
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... Platonic writers of the time ' ( Visions 303 ; see YL ) . The second - hand nature of Yeats's knowledge of Platonic philosophy at that time is evident in his rough draft ( NLI 13,575 ) for part xi of ' Swedenborg , Mediums , and the ...
... Platonic writers of the time ' ( Visions 303 ; see YL ) . The second - hand nature of Yeats's knowledge of Platonic philosophy at that time is evident in his rough draft ( NLI 13,575 ) for part xi of ' Swedenborg , Mediums , and the ...
Contents
Tradition Imitation and the Synthesis of Content | 1 |
Summoning | 31 |
Form Philosophy and Pictorialism | 68 |
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