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Renaissance LiteraturePalgrave Macmillan UK, 1991 M07 18 - 308 pages This book is the first to make extensive use of unpublished manuscripts to show how a period of English literature affected W.B.Yeats's development as a poet.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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... style , each of which he laboured over a good deal , came increasingly to the same thing . His pursuit of both may be read in the way he made poems . In practice , Yeats was strongly affected by the Renaissance - and in particular by ...
... style , each of which he laboured over a good deal , came increasingly to the same thing . His pursuit of both may be read in the way he made poems . In practice , Yeats was strongly affected by the Renaissance - and in particular by ...
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... style of the Spenserians ' , as George Williamson has pointed out , 24 or , indeed , to the dominant style of the Elizabethans . Yeats's shift to a plainer ( or , as he saw it , more ' masculine ' ) poetic style is largely a consequence ...
... style of the Spenserians ' , as George Williamson has pointed out , 24 or , indeed , to the dominant style of the Elizabethans . Yeats's shift to a plainer ( or , as he saw it , more ' masculine ' ) poetic style is largely a consequence ...
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... style : To bring back the arts of personality , the personality of the lyrical poet or the dramatic personalities of ... style . When a man cultivates a style in literature he is shaping his personality . ( YT 38-9 ) - In the last ...
... style : To bring back the arts of personality , the personality of the lyrical poet or the dramatic personalities of ... style . When a man cultivates a style in literature he is shaping his personality . ( YT 38-9 ) - In the last ...
Contents
Tradition Imitation and the Synthesis of Content | 1 |
Summoning | 31 |
Form Philosophy and Pictorialism | 68 |
Copyright | |
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