Unlocking the Poetry of W. B. Yeats

Heart Mysteries

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

AvDaniel Tompsett

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Unlocking the Poetry of W.B. Yeats undertakes a thorough re-reading of Yeats' oeuvre as an extended meditation on the image and theme of the heart as it is evident within the poetry. It places the heart at the centre of a complex web of Yeatsian preoccupations and associations—from the biographical, to the poetic and philosophical, to the mythological and mystical. In particular, the book seeks to unlock Yeats’ mystifying aesthetic vision via his understanding of the ancient Egyptian "Weighing of the Heart" ceremony. The work provides a chronological narrative arc that looks to use the theme of the heart as it recurs in the poetry in order to circumvent and overcome more established frameworks. Its purpose is to offer refreshing ways of conceptualizing and building alternatives to more deeply entrenched, but not entirely satisfactory arguments that have been offered since Yeats' death in 1939, while demonstrating the centrality of the occult to Yeats' art.

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Utgivningsdatum2018-06-05
Mått152 x 229 x 27 mm
Vikt671 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature
Antal sidor390
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781138606746

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ContentsPermissionsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I: The Desires of the Heart1 The Wanderings of Oisin (1889) - Themes of the Embittered Heart2 Early Lyrics - Souls Threshed from Husks of Threshed StarsPart II: The Divided Heart3 The Middle Poems - Death and Rebirth4 The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) - Toward a Coole Vision5 Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) - Kindling New FirePart III: Sufficient Heart Truths6 The Tower (1928) - The Towering Heart of the Absolute7 The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933) - Spirit and Matter Upon the Winding Stair8 Parnell's Funeral and Other Poems (1935) - Magical Drumming to Absorb the AntinomiesPart IV: Tragic Joy and the Weighing of the Heart9 New Poems (1938) - Tragic Joy in the Gyres10 Last Poems (1939) - The Weighing of the HeartConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex