Out of Ireland: A Reading of Yeats' PoetryCarcanet Press, 1975 - 169 pages Studie over het werk van de Ierse dichter (1865-1939) |
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Page 53
... Gregory's death , it is surely evident from the poem that what is troubling the poet is not simply an existential grief to which art cannot minister . It is something which , to Yeats at any rate , is rather more important and certainly ...
... Gregory's death , it is surely evident from the poem that what is troubling the poet is not simply an existential grief to which art cannot minister . It is something which , to Yeats at any rate , is rather more important and certainly ...
Page 54
... Gregory refuses the gesture , refuses to wear the death mask Yeats provides , refuses to ' lie down and die ' ; and because Yeats realizes this , the poem ends where it began , with the ghost of Gregory still outside : I had thought ...
... Gregory refuses the gesture , refuses to wear the death mask Yeats provides , refuses to ' lie down and die ' ; and because Yeats realizes this , the poem ends where it began , with the ghost of Gregory still outside : I had thought ...
Page 56
... Gregory ' Kermode again sees Gregory primarily as an artist oppressed by the conflict between action and contemplation : I speak as though Gregory were treated in this poem as an artist - contemplative and as nothing else ; and this is ...
... Gregory ' Kermode again sees Gregory primarily as an artist oppressed by the conflict between action and contemplation : I speak as though Gregory were treated in this poem as an artist - contemplative and as nothing else ; and this is ...
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
The CourtierMage | 35 |
Apocalyptic Poems | 57 |
Copyright | |
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