The Poetry of Yeats (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: William Butler Yeats
- First Published: 1886
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry
- Subjects: Revolutionaries, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Nineteenth century, Literature, Poetry or poets, Masks, Ireland or Irish people
Critical Evaluation:
The conflict that the antimonies between dream and action caused in the mind of William Butler Yeats could not be resolved in the verse tradition of the Pre-Raphaelites. This was the poetry, together with that of Shelley and Keats and the plays of Shakespeare, with which he was most familiar. It was also the tradition to which he was closest in time. As he did not have a background of coherent culture on which to base his poetry, nor a personally satisfying faith, Yeats throughout his life had to create his own systems of thought—create, in fact, the...
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