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 33
... twentieth - century poets have no legislative powers : I think it better that in times like these A poet's mouth be silent , for in truth We have no gift to set a statesman right.14 ( ' On Being Asked for a War Poem ' ) When he failed ...
... twentieth - century poets have no legislative powers : I think it better that in times like these A poet's mouth be silent , for in truth We have no gift to set a statesman right.14 ( ' On Being Asked for a War Poem ' ) When he failed ...
Page 65
... twentieth - century witchcraft need not be altogether unimaginative . In sum , she brightens a decidedly dark scene with her ' bronzed peacock feathers ' and makes it less disturbing by giving it both pedigree and historical precedent ...
... twentieth - century witchcraft need not be altogether unimaginative . In sum , she brightens a decidedly dark scene with her ' bronzed peacock feathers ' and makes it less disturbing by giving it both pedigree and historical precedent ...
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... century's thin - blooded comedy , and rather looking forward to the return of wild animals in twentieth - century cataclysm . When a culture becomes over - refined , it takes for an improvement of Nature what is in fact a degradation of ...
... century's thin - blooded comedy , and rather looking forward to the return of wild animals in twentieth - century cataclysm . When a culture becomes over - refined , it takes for an improvement of Nature what is in fact a degradation of ...
Contents
Introduction | 9 |
The CourtierMage | 35 |
Apocalyptic Poems | 57 |
Copyright | |
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