The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, Volume 4Scribner, 2007 |
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... poets , he has the triviality of emotion , the poverty of ideas , the imperfect sense of beauty of a poetry whose most typical expression is in Longfellow . Longfellow has his popularity , in the main , because he tells his story or his ...
... poets , he has the triviality of emotion , the poverty of ideas , the imperfect sense of beauty of a poetry whose most typical expression is in Longfellow . Longfellow has his popularity , in the main , because he tells his story or his ...
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... poetry with a phantastic rhetoric , unless one compares such passages , and above all such passages as describe the liberty he praised , till one has discovered the system of belief ... poetry . ' Poetry is ' the creation 52 EARLY ESSAYS.
... poetry with a phantastic rhetoric , unless one compares such passages , and above all such passages as describe the liberty he praised , till one has discovered the system of belief ... poetry . ' Poetry is ' the creation 52 EARLY ESSAYS.
Page 359
... Poetry " ( see pp . 51-72 ) , Yeats cites sev- eral quotations from Shelley's A Defence of Poetry in support of this view . 28. The combination of Cross and Rose is an important Rosicrucian sym- bol often used by Yeats , as in the ...
... Poetry " ( see pp . 51-72 ) , Yeats cites sev- eral quotations from Shelley's A Defence of Poetry in support of this view . 28. The combination of Cross and Rose is an important Rosicrucian sym- bol often used by Yeats , as in the ...
Contents
Editors Preface and Acknowledgments | xiii |
Abbreviations | xvii |
Illustrations | xxi |
Copyright | |
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