Buch, Englisch, 179 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 254 g
Buch, Englisch, 179 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 254 g
ISBN: 978-0-333-48067-0
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
The aim of this study is to help students at school and university to approach W.B.Yeats. Some sections of this book were first delivered as lectures in the Universita degli Studi di Firenze in 1987, and as the talk, "The Folly That Men Do: Yeats and Women" at the British Institute, Florence.
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Reading Yeats; Yeats - biography and history; nationalism and the Anglo-Irish tradition; family; golden dawn and Celtic twilight; Maud Gonne and theatre business; independence struggle and civil war; maturity and old age; Yeats' themes and motifs; how themes are embodied in a poem; symbol and image; falcon, dove, swan; imagination and reality; house and tower; the anti-self or mask; Ireland, Byzantium and England; art, aristocracy and democracy; poet and people; the hero; beauty, woman, carnal knowledge; philosophers and dancers; folly and madness; unrequited love; age and "bodily decrepitude"; terror and apocalypse; Yeats' vision of history; the Gyres; Apollonian and Dionysian; repetition, shadow, archetype; Troy, Leda, Helen, Adam; death and rebirth; style; commentary - "Meru"; W.B.Yeats - a life and times.
