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 100
... story that began with Hamlet's ' agile rapier ' . Rather like Nietzsche , Yeats vacillated between the two versions ... stories to tell , about his own attempts to occupy a particular house in a particular landscape . Given the foul ...
... story that began with Hamlet's ' agile rapier ' . Rather like Nietzsche , Yeats vacillated between the two versions ... stories to tell , about his own attempts to occupy a particular house in a particular landscape . Given the foul ...
Page 133
... story , a story which had fascina- ted him for many years - indeed , ' a peasant girl ' is as close as he comes to naming her . To have come any closer might have led him to consider the connections between that ' small local landed ...
... story , a story which had fascina- ted him for many years - indeed , ' a peasant girl ' is as close as he comes to naming her . To have come any closer might have led him to consider the connections between that ' small local landed ...
Page 165
... story is over , for it has been told . And when the story is over , what then ? When all the ghosts who have haunted Yeats's ancestral tower have been laid to rest , he too is effectively dead , for his blood is no longer moved by ...
... story is over , for it has been told . And when the story is over , what then ? When all the ghosts who have haunted Yeats's ancestral tower have been laid to rest , he too is effectively dead , for his blood is no longer moved by ...
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
The CourtierMage | 35 |
Apocalyptic Poems | 57 |
Copyright | |
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