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 52
... master ) the absurdities of life and death . While this is immediately plausible , and may even have been the poet's conscious intention , it is only part of the story ; for not only would such an admission be uncharacteristic of Yeats ...
... master ) the absurdities of life and death . While this is immediately plausible , and may even have been the poet's conscious intention , it is only part of the story ; for not only would such an admission be uncharacteristic of Yeats ...
Page 124
... masters into his verbal tower , to supervise their immortality and be in effect the masters ' master . What seems likely is that Yeats lost confidence in his ability to prove the dialectical continuity between blood and the moon , that ...
... masters into his verbal tower , to supervise their immortality and be in effect the masters ' master . What seems likely is that Yeats lost confidence in his ability to prove the dialectical continuity between blood and the moon , that ...
Page 139
... master of ' this house ' have lost the ability to move upon their moonlit energies , and hence become dogs staked out in the yard the one bound by financial debts , the other by old age and an environment he cannot master , which ...
... master of ' this house ' have lost the ability to move upon their moonlit energies , and hence become dogs staked out in the yard the one bound by financial debts , the other by old age and an environment he cannot master , which ...
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
The CourtierMage | 35 |
Apocalyptic Poems | 57 |
Copyright | |
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