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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... nature through its failure to achieve substantial union with the flesh . This kind of idealism ( which may be called tragic or dialectical ) received its classic exposition in the ' negative ' philosophy of Hegel , who proposed it not ...
... nature through its failure to achieve substantial union with the flesh . This kind of idealism ( which may be called tragic or dialectical ) received its classic exposition in the ' negative ' philosophy of Hegel , who proposed it not ...
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... natural beauty for its own sake , may originate in the fact that most of the Celtic poets are not concerned with nature at all . . . But of Yeats I think it is possible that to this racial characteristic must be added his ex- tremely ...
... natural beauty for its own sake , may originate in the fact that most of the Celtic poets are not concerned with nature at all . . . But of Yeats I think it is possible that to this racial characteristic must be added his ex- tremely ...
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... Nature's indifference to the absurd drama in her midst can relieve him , ' caught in the cold snows of a dream ' . VI ' The Stare's Nest by My Window ' In a passage describing the genesis of this poem Yeats wrote : Men must have lived ...
... Nature's indifference to the absurd drama in her midst can relieve him , ' caught in the cold snows of a dream ' . VI ' The Stare's Nest by My Window ' In a passage describing the genesis of this poem Yeats wrote : Men must have lived ...
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
The CourtierMage | 35 |
Apocalyptic Poems | 57 |
Copyright | |
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