| Description |
xiv, 218 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Preface books |
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Preface books.
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| Contents |
Pt. 1. Historical and Literary Background. 1. Biographical Summaries. Education. Appearance and characteristics. 2. The History of Ireland as it Concerned the Poet. Tales of gods and heroes. The coming of Christianity. Gaelic Ireland in Norman, Tudor and Stuart times. The Anglo-Irish of the eighteenth century. The fight for freedom: 1800-1923. The last years: 1923-39. 3. The Poet's Reading. Occult and magic. Plato and the Neoplatonists. Giambattista Vico, 1668-1744. George Berkeley, 1685-1753. Edmund Burke, 1729-97. William Blake, 1757-1827. Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900. 4. A Vision -- Pt. 2. Critical Survey. Early Yeats. The Stolen Child. Cuchulain's Fight with the Sea. The Players Ask for a Blessing on the Psalteries and on Themselves. Poems 1910-20. The Magi. On a Political Prisoner. The Second Coming. Poems of the 1920s. Meditations in Time of Civil War - Part VI. Sailing to Byzantium. Last Poems, the 1930s. The O'Rahilly. The Circus Animals' Desertion |
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Pt. 3. Reference Section. Yeats's family, friends and acquaintances. Gazetteer. Places referred to either directly or by inference in the poems. Yeats's symbols: their origins, connections and attributes. Common Irish (Gaelic) place names |
| Analysis |
English poetry |
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English poetry |
| Notes |
Previous ed.: 1974 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Subject |
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| SUBJECT |
Ireland -- In literature.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008104923
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| Author |
Purkis, John Arthur, 1933-
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| LC no. |
93039017 |
| ISBN |
0582090938 (paperback) |
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(paperback) |
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