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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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The Man and the Mask: Yeats and Cuchulain
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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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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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"Sung Out of the Void": Yeats's Folkloric Nationalism
<p>Yeats infuses his poetry, prose, and plays with elements of folklore, and the ancient stories are the seeds and roots for much of his work. He assumes his readers' facility with this material, which is credible, considering the wide-spread popularity of Ireland's iconic folklore. It is precisely …