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by: William Butler Yeats
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.8
EAN: 9780026327022
ISBN: 0026327023
Label: Scribner
Manufacturer: Scribner
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 512
Publication Date: September 30, 1994
Publisher: Scribner
Sales Rank: 942677
Studio: Scribner
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Compiling nineteen essays and introductions, a volume with explanatory notes includes Per Amica Silentia Lunae and On the Boiler as well as introductions on Shelley and Balzac and essays on Irish poetry and politics.
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Rating: - Yeat As Creative Critic
Yeats' literary criticism demonstrates his tenets and poetics-his working notions of poetry and culture-far more immediately and accessibly in his essays than he does in the web of arcana expounded in A Vision (q.v.). Of essays gathered here, some are seminal not only to Yeats' poetics but also to interpretive approaches to literature. The most significant-"The Philosophy of Shelley's Poetry" (precursor to archetypal symbolism and to Jungian ideas of the collective unconscious), "The Symbolism of ... Read More
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