Bibliograph

Swan and shadow;, Yeats's dialogue with history

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Swan and shadow;, Yeats's dialogue with history

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Swan and shadow;

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Sub title

Yeats's dialogue with history

Summary

History was central in a variety of ways to Yeats's poetic development and to the meaning of his work. In this study, Whitaker suggests that history was for the poet a mysterious interlocutor, which Yeats saw at times as a bright reflection of himself and again as a dark force opposed to that self. The poet's internal dialogue is viewed as projection into historical symbolism

Target audience

adult

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