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Renaissance LiteraturePalgrave Macmillan UK, 1991 M07 18 - 308 pages This book is the first to make extensive use of unpublished manuscripts to show how a period of English literature affected W.B.Yeats's development as a poet.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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... Perhaps with the first line already in mind , the young poet applied his initial strokes in an effort to feel the ... Perhaps because the last few lines of the first draft are so self - consciously indebted to Spenser as a ' great old ...
... Perhaps with the first line already in mind , the young poet applied his initial strokes in an effort to feel the ... Perhaps because the last few lines of the first draft are so self - consciously indebted to Spenser as a ' great old ...
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... 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 lively , would revolve around a ...
... 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 lively , would revolve around a ...
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... perhaps not a pictorial poet . Shelley exhibited this ten- dency ; and Yeats , who reduced Spenser and Shelley to a single dyadic cluster in an adaptive complex , attempted to give poetic embodiment to conflicts between nature and art ...
... perhaps not a pictorial poet . Shelley exhibited this ten- dency ; and Yeats , who reduced Spenser and Shelley to a single dyadic cluster in an adaptive complex , attempted to give poetic embodiment to conflicts between nature and art ...
Contents
Tradition Imitation and the Synthesis of Content | 1 |
Summoning | 31 |
Form Philosophy and Pictorialism | 68 |
Copyright | |
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