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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... possibility : he may simply want to ' know ' them , in and for themselves . This possibility was basically not available to the primitive , and its discovery in the west is generally credited to Plato when we say that it was he who ...
... possibility : he may simply want to ' know ' them , in and for themselves . This possibility was basically not available to the primitive , and its discovery in the west is generally credited to Plato when we say that it was he who ...
Page 47
... possibility that he too is dead , or at least deathly which raises the possibility that only dead things come to my mind , or even that bringing things to mind is somehow a deadening act . This suspicion is borne out by the next three ...
... possibility that he too is dead , or at least deathly which raises the possibility that only dead things come to my mind , or even that bringing things to mind is somehow a deadening act . This suspicion is borne out by the next three ...
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... possibility that a man who really had cast a nonchalant eye on life and death should not have survived quite so long . This possibility may indeed be on his mind , for all the ghosts he summons in the second section have had some ...
... possibility that a man who really had cast a nonchalant eye on life and death should not have survived quite so long . This possibility may indeed be on his mind , for all the ghosts he summons in the second section have had some ...
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
The CourtierMage | 35 |
Apocalyptic Poems | 57 |
Copyright | |
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