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William Butler Yeats' transformations of eastern religious concepts
This study addresses the issue of William Butler Yeats' use of Upanishad philosophy in his poetry. Although many analyses of Yeats' art vis-a-vis Eastern religion exist, none offer the thesis that the poet transformed certain religious concepts for his own purpose, thereby removing those concepts …
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Symbolism in the Poetry of William Butler Yeats
… development of the symbolic system formulated by William Butler Yeats and his subsequent application of this system to his poetry, with special attention to the rose and the stone. To comprehend and thereby fully appreciate Yeats's poetry requires some knowledge of the forces working together to …
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William Butler Yeats and Edmund Dulac; a correspondence: 1916-1938
In 1916 William Butler Yeats, Edmund Dulac, and Ezra Pound were caught up together in the study of Japanese Noh drama, and were experimenting with a production of Yeats' first play using that form, "At the Hawk's Well." This collection of Yeatsfs correspondence with Dulac, which begins in that …
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A Study of the One Sentence Poes of William Butler Yeats
… the possibility that the one sentence poems of William Butler Yeats were poems in which techniques were developed that were later extended and used in the great middle and late poems. The greatest number of one sentence poems are to be found in Yeats's volume of poetry entitled. The Wind Among …
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While The Sedum Is In Flower: A Biographical Novel of William Butler Yeats
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The Bardic Style In The Poetry Of Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Butler Yeats, And Dylan Thomas
… elements in the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Butler Yeats, and Dylan Thomas that have been difficult to account for. Although each of these writers is generally engaged with modern poetics and sensitive to the issues of his time, certain characteristics of the work--such as Hopkins' …
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Curious astringent joy : an exploration of major Nietzschean echoes in the writing of William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats first came under the thrall of / Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche in the Dublin summer of 1902. 0 His friend and patron, the New York lawyer John Quinn, had sent Yeats a modest volume of Nietzsche with the imposing title of Nietzsche as Critic, PhiZosopher, Poet and 'Prophet, …
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Upon Clamorous Wings: A Study of the Symbolism in the Lyrical and Dramatical Poetry of William Butler Yeats
"Mr. Yeats' poetry," Chesterton once said, "is not only good, but obviously good. It is his point of view that might be dubious or disappointing." Then he proceeded to explain how a writer’s point of view which is in no way controversial in him, may become controversial through our attitude, This, …
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Esthetics of Dedalus and Bloom: nineteenth century roots, structural metaphors, and resolutions
… essayists which includes Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Morris, Algernon Swinburne, Walter Horatio Pater, Oscar Wilde and William Butler Yeats. Stephen Dedalus and his esthetics, particularly as they appear in <em>Portrait</em>, are inheritors of that tradition. Further, the study will trace …
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Kinship: Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind and the Irish Big House Genre
… the lens of biography and history. The works of William Butler Yeats, Maria Edgeworth, and Edith Somerville and Martin Ross are also employed to show evidence of the connection of Gone with the Wind to Irish Big House literature. This comparison results in a new approach to Margaret Mitchell's …
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"Rosa alchemica," "The tables of the law," and "Adoration of the magi," edited and with an introduction
<p>"This volume contains an introduction to William Butler Yeats' early occult short stories "Rosa Alchemica," "The Tables of the Law," and "The Adoration of the Magi." Panned by critics over the last century, the three stories contained in this volume are both controversial and difficult. The …
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From Skeletons to Orchards
… influenced by both Charles Baudelaire and William Butler Yeats. The second phase, titled "Clandestinies," was one in which I tried to develop a more dense form. Lord Byron and Pablo Neruda were the two main influences on my work at this time, largely in terms of imaginative exoticism and …
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‘Just as strenuous a nationalist as ever’, W.B. Yeats and postcolonialism: tensions, ambiguities, and uncertainties
This study investigates William Butler Yeats’s relationship to the issues of colonialism and anti-colonialism and his stance as a postcolonial poet. A considerable part of Yeats criticism has read him either as a revolutionary and anti-colonial figure or a poet with reactionary and colonialist …
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Otherwordly modernism: magic, mediums, and coloniality
… and artistic projects of George and William Butler Yeats, Pamela Colman Smith, Jean Rhys, and Mina Loy, I demonstrate how these authors and artists seek “otherworlds” to revitalize their lives and art but how their conceptualizations of and attempts to reach such places depend on …
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Waking the dead: funerary performance, classical appropriation, and gendered embodiment on the early Abbey stage
… they had largely been forced into obscurity. William Butler Yeats, John Millington Synge, and Lady Augusta Gregory's plays frequently and selectively refer to two such vernacular traditions: the caoineadh and the Irish wake. This study analyzes plays produced by the Abbey theatre during its …
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A Reevaluation of the Literary Works of Edward Alexander [Aleister] Crowley
… interested in the mystical and occult content of William Butler Yeats's poetry, praising it for the same characteristics which have always been labeled "defects" in Crowley's work. Section One, "Yeats and the Golden Dawn," describes the formative matrix to which both men belonged, and to a certain …
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Recovering the roots: exploring myth, rural life, and the pastoral in W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney
Boston University. University Professors Program Senior theses.
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