| Description |
1 online resource (xxxv, 435 pages) : illustrations |
| Summary |
Modernism, as a powerful movement, saw the literary and artistic traditions, as well as pure science, starting to evolve radically, creating a crisis, even chaos, in culture and society. Within this chaos, myth offered an ordered picture of that world employing symbolic and poetic images. Both W.B. Yeats and Angelos Sikelianos embraced myth and symbols because they liberate imagination and raise human consciousness, bringing together humans and the cosmos. Being opposed to the rigidity of scientific materialism that inhibits spiritual development, the two poets were waiting for a new age and a |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 8, 2019) |
| Subject |
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Sikelianos, Angelos, 1884-1951 -- Criticism and interpretation
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Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 -- Characters -- Women
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Sikelianos, Angelos, 1884-1951 -- Characters -- Women
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| SUBJECT |
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 fast |
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Sikelianos, Angelos, 1884-1951 fast |
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Femininity in literature.
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POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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Women in literature
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Femininity in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781527523807 |
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1527523802 |
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