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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... political figure in ancient times : The fili undoubtedly inherited his magic powers from the drui or druid , who must have been more a wizard than a priest ; Latin lives of the Irish saints often use the word magus to translate drui ...
... political figure in ancient times : The fili undoubtedly inherited his magic powers from the drui or druid , who must have been more a wizard than a priest ; Latin lives of the Irish saints often use the word magus to translate drui ...
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... Politics Like most of the other major writers of his generation , such as Pound , Eliot and Lawrence Yeats has been accused of fascist political beliefs . The charge is just , but not nearly as significant as those who urge it would ...
... Politics Like most of the other major writers of his generation , such as Pound , Eliot and Lawrence Yeats has been accused of fascist political beliefs . The charge is just , but not nearly as significant as those who urge it would ...
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... political event this poem is a master- piece of cunning and tact ; for however shallow one's grasp of Yeats's politics , one cannot but see that this event ( which found him , appropriately enough , visiting Sir William Rothen- stein in ...
... political event this poem is a master- piece of cunning and tact ; for however shallow one's grasp of Yeats's politics , one cannot but see that this event ( which found him , appropriately enough , visiting Sir William Rothen- stein in ...
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
The CourtierMage | 35 |
Apocalyptic Poems | 57 |
Copyright | |
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