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Yeats and labour
This thesis examines how W.B. Yeats’s view of labour developed over his lifetime. It focuses primarily on Yeats’s poetry, though consideration is also made of his letters, essays, plays, and speeches. The five chapters of the thesis are organised chronologically. Chapter 1 argues that Yeats’s early …
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Yeats and water imagery
Surprisingly little of Yeatsian scholarship deals with the cluster of images that forms one of the basic building blocks of the poet's philosophical system, water and its related imagery. This thesis intends to remedy this neglect. The centrality of water imagery stems from the fact that Yeats had …
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Yeats, Eliot, and Apocalyptic Poetry
Yeats and Eliot merit comparison because they wrote poetry that has been described as apocalyptic in the same historical period and in the same general geographic area but described entirely different visions. These particular works of Yeats and Eliot are appropriate because they represent two …
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The Early Yeats and Greek Myth
<p>The subject of this study is Yeats’s use of Greek myth in his early poems. By early poems is here meant those poems contained in Crossways (1889), The Rose (1893), The Wind Among the Reeds (1894), In the Seven Woods (1904), The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910), and Responsibilities (1914) as …
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The Man and the Mask: Yeats and Cuchulain
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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
… 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 form the basis …
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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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W.B. Yeats, 1904 Popular Theatre and the Politics of Cuchullain
… Strand is one of the best acting plays that Mr Yeats has written…there is less of the mystical and more of the human element in the composition than in most of Mr Yeats dramas [and] the characters are virile and actual” (1976, 128-9).This quote, from the Freeman’s Journal, illustrates the …
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The Mind of Winter: Poetic Theories of Yeats and Stevens
… unity of being and nothingness, and to show how Yeats and Stevens used related imagery of cold, ice, and stone in the service of their poetic imagination.</p> <p>In Part I I am chiefly concerned with the genesis of these images and conflicts. I felt that it was important to view the poets' …
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A Study of the One Sentence Poes of William Butler Yeats
… 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 the Reeds, …
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Secret Identity: Reassessing Jack B. Yeats as a Comic Strip Artist
… strip work produced by the Irish painter Jack B. Yeats for a number of British publications between c. 1893 and 1917. The thesis seeks to identify and analyse the corpus of his previously unexamined work, positioning it in relation to contemporaneous media, entertainment and popular culture, as …
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Primal and Bardic: The Role of Ireland in Yeats' Early Aesthetics
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The Deirdre Theme in AE, W. B. Yeats and J. M. Synge
… Revival. Under the leadership of AE and 1. B. Yeats, young writers sought their inspiration in the glories of Ireland's heroic age rather than the sorrows of her more recent past. How the best-loved and most enduring of the legends, “Deirdre and the Sons of Usnach,” was woven by these two …
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Ekphrasis and ethics in the poetry of W.B. Yeats and Eavan Boland.
This study argues that W.B. Yeats is an important poetic precursor for Eavan Boland, and particularly for her sophisticated engagement with the age-old subgenre of ekphrasis, in which a poem responds to a work of visual art. I explore how both poets explode the boundaries of poetic form and …
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Embodied female voices: sexuality and artistry in Woolf, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett
… Female Voices: Sexuality and Artistry in Woolf, Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett” investigates modernist literary techniques for creating a female character with a voice who is also active and expressive in her sexuality. These canonical modernist authors found new ways to represent women as embodied, …
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