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Renaissance LiteraturePalgrave Macmillan UK, 1991 M07 18 - 308 pages This book is the first to make extensive use of unpublished manuscripts to show how a period of English literature affected W.B.Yeats's development as a poet.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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... appealed to the young English Decadent and Symbolist writers then living in London . First , Yeats gathered with such poets of his acquaintance in a loose circle called the Rhymers ' Club , a group which Proto - Modern Poet , 1885-1910 41.
... appealed to the young English Decadent and Symbolist writers then living in London . First , Yeats gathered with such poets of his acquaintance in a loose circle called the Rhymers ' Club , a group which Proto - Modern Poet , 1885-1910 41.
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... Living in the last days of ' Merry England ' , he had nevertheless ' many Puritan thoughts ' ( E & I 367 ) - thoughts from a loathsome religion , as Yeats said , which ' denied the sacredness of an earth that commerce . . . corrupt [ ed ] ...
... Living in the last days of ' Merry England ' , he had nevertheless ' many Puritan thoughts ' ( E & I 367 ) - thoughts from a loathsome religion , as Yeats said , which ' denied the sacredness of an earth that commerce . . . corrupt [ ed ] ...
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... Living Beauty ' , bearing on verso a fragmentary version of a poem about Solomon and Sheba . MS . 13,587 ( 6 ) . Rejected ending to ' Shepherd and Goatherd ' . MS . 13,587 ( 20 ) . ' Ego Dominus Tuus ' . MS . 13,587 ( 21 ) . ' The ...
... Living Beauty ' , bearing on verso a fragmentary version of a poem about Solomon and Sheba . MS . 13,587 ( 6 ) . Rejected ending to ' Shepherd and Goatherd ' . MS . 13,587 ( 20 ) . ' Ego Dominus Tuus ' . MS . 13,587 ( 21 ) . ' The ...
Contents
Tradition Imitation and the Synthesis of Content | 1 |
Summoning | 31 |
Form Philosophy and Pictorialism | 68 |
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