W.B. Yeats and the Muses /
This text explores how Yeats perceived the women to and about whom he wrote some of his greatest poetry in terms akin to the Greek notion that a poet is inspired and possessed by the feminine voices of the Muses. Newly available letters and manuscripts are used to examine the creative process and in...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This text explores how Yeats perceived the women to and about whom he wrote some of his greatest poetry in terms akin to the Greek notion that a poet is inspired and possessed by the feminine voices of the Muses. Newly available letters and manuscripts are used to examine the creative process and interpret the poems. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 258 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-243) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191591518 0191591513 9780191723216 0191723215 |