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Renaissance LiteraturePalgrave Macmillan UK, 1991 M07 18 - 308 pages This book is the first to make extensive use of unpublished manuscripts to show how a period of English literature affected W.B.Yeats's development as a poet.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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... century , the successors of the dramatists of the sixteenth , possessed a mechanism of sensibility which could devour any kind of experience . . . . [ However , ] in the seventeenth century a dissociation of sensibility set in , from ...
... century , the successors of the dramatists of the sixteenth , possessed a mechanism of sensibility which could devour any kind of experience . . . . [ However , ] in the seventeenth century a dissociation of sensibility set in , from ...
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... century , the rise of Puritanism was a revolt against the spirit of the Renaissance and the ' moral weakness ' or ... century of the conscience and moral sense of our race , against the moral indifference and lax rule of conduct which in ...
... century , the rise of Puritanism was a revolt against the spirit of the Renaissance and the ' moral weakness ' or ... century of the conscience and moral sense of our race , against the moral indifference and lax rule of conduct which in ...
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... century poetic feasts of Ben Jonson or , perhaps more self - consciously , their eighteenth - century sequels at ' The Cheese ' , 19 he must have been a little disappointed to find that his group , which seems to have been anything but ...
... century poetic feasts of Ben Jonson or , perhaps more self - consciously , their eighteenth - century sequels at ' The Cheese ' , 19 he must have been a little disappointed to find that his group , which seems to have been anything but ...
Contents
Tradition Imitation and the Synthesis of Content | 1 |
Summoning | 31 |
Form Philosophy and Pictorialism | 68 |
Copyright | |
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