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Renaissance LiteraturePalgrave Macmillan UK, 1991 M07 18 - 308 pages This book is the first to make extensive use of unpublished manuscripts to show how a period of English literature affected W.B.Yeats's development as a poet.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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... poet's technique and his language were necessary ingredients of a dynamic process by which poets had long wrought expression for the ' phantasmagoria ' that was beyond them until they had written . The poet , a mortal ' bundle of ...
... poet's technique and his language were necessary ingredients of a dynamic process by which poets had long wrought expression for the ' phantasmagoria ' that was beyond them until they had written . The poet , a mortal ' bundle of ...
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... poet must . . . see to it that his Court expels the parvenu even though he [ pronoun with ambiguous reference ] gather all the riches of the world ' . The opposite occurs in the play . That Yeats should dramatize the crisis of the poet ...
... poet must . . . see to it that his Court expels the parvenu even though he [ pronoun with ambiguous reference ] gather all the riches of the world ' . The opposite occurs in the play . That Yeats should dramatize the crisis of the poet ...
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... poet's later modernity , into that union of contradictory impulses , that complex personality , that we read in his poems and criticism and infer to be his own . The poet's interests , though they did not always coincide with his ...
... poet's later modernity , into that union of contradictory impulses , that complex personality , that we read in his poems and criticism and infer to be his own . The poet's interests , though they did not always coincide with his ...
Contents
Tradition Imitation and the Synthesis of Content | 1 |
Summoning | 31 |
Form Philosophy and Pictorialism | 68 |
Copyright | |
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