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Renaissance LiteraturePalgrave Macmillan UK, 1991 M07 18 - 308 pages This book is the first to make extensive use of unpublished manuscripts to show how a period of English literature affected W.B.Yeats's development as a poet.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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Page 87
... symbol of ' divine nature ' , ' the symbolic heart of things ' ( both affiliated with the sun ) , ' spiritual love ... symbolism was incident to the Neoplatonic tradition that confronted Yeats in his initial reading of The Faerie Queene ...
... symbol of ' divine nature ' , ' the symbolic heart of things ' ( both affiliated with the sun ) , ' spiritual love ... symbolism was incident to the Neoplatonic tradition that confronted Yeats in his initial reading of The Faerie Queene ...
Page 93
... symbol ' ( i.e. as it may be embodied by human form ) or ' not identical with [ though very close to ] its human image and symbol ' , so that a young man might suppose it to be an ideal or only an idea . ( See the first epigraph to this ...
... symbol ' ( i.e. as it may be embodied by human form ) or ' not identical with [ though very close to ] its human image and symbol ' , so that a young man might suppose it to be an ideal or only an idea . ( See the first epigraph to this ...
Page 197
... symbol of identity a restored sixteenth - century tower which stood amid and endured the insult of violent times ( plates 10-11 ) . The symbol appealed because the poet associated it with ancient aristocratic values opposed to merely ...
... symbol of identity a restored sixteenth - century tower which stood amid and endured the insult of violent times ( plates 10-11 ) . The symbol appealed because the poet associated it with ancient aristocratic values opposed to merely ...
Contents
Tradition Imitation and the Synthesis of Content | 1 |
Summoning | 31 |
Form Philosophy and Pictorialism | 68 |
Copyright | |
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