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Renaissance LiteraturePalgrave Macmillan UK, 1991 M07 18 - 308 pages This book is the first to make extensive use of unpublished manuscripts to show how a period of English literature affected W.B.Yeats's development as a poet.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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... wrote , I compel myself to accept those traditional metres that have developed with the language . Ezra Pound , Turner , Lawrence wrote admirable free verse , I could not . I would lose myself , become joyless . . . . If I wrote of ...
... wrote , I compel myself to accept those traditional metres that have developed with the language . Ezra Pound , Turner , Lawrence wrote admirable free verse , I could not . I would lose myself , become joyless . . . . If I wrote of ...
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... wrote , among the few thousand who had spoken Irish ' from the cradle ' , perhaps no one had ' enough of the unwritten tradition to know good verses from bad ones , if he [ had ] enough mother - wiƄ ( E & I 11 ) . A few years later ...
... wrote , among the few thousand who had spoken Irish ' from the cradle ' , perhaps no one had ' enough of the unwritten tradition to know good verses from bad ones , if he [ had ] enough mother - wiƄ ( E & I 11 ) . A few years later ...
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... wrote , ' for some years was to meet every night in an upper room with a sanded floor in an ancient eating - house in the Strand called The Cheshire Cheese ' ( Au 165 ) . If he had wished to resurrect the famous seventeenth - century ...
... wrote , ' for some years was to meet every night in an upper room with a sanded floor in an ancient eating - house in the Strand called The Cheshire Cheese ' ( Au 165 ) . If he had wished to resurrect the famous seventeenth - century ...
Contents
Tradition Imitation and the Synthesis of Content | 1 |
Summoning | 31 |
Form Philosophy and Pictorialism | 68 |
Copyright | |
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