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EBOOK W.B. Yeats and the Muses

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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191614897
EAN: 38B4E208EB
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Stron: 279
Data wydania: 2010
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W.B. Yeats and the Muses explores how nine fascinating women inspired much of W.B.          Yeats's poetry. These women are particularly important because Yeats perceived them        in terms of beliefs about poetic inspiration akin to the Greek notion that a great        poet is inspired and possessed by the feminine voices of the Muses. Influenced by        the Pre-Raphaelite idea of woman as 'romantic and mysterious, still the priestess of        her shrine', Yeats found his Muses in living women. Hisextraordinarily long and        fruitful poetic career was fuelled by passionate relationships with women to and        about whom he wrote some of his most compelling poetry. The book summarizes the        different Muse traditions that were congenial to Yeats and shows how his perception        of these women as Muses underlies hispoetry. Newly available letters and manuscripts        are used to explore the creative process and interpret the poems.Because Yeats        believed that lyric poetry 'is no rootless flower, but the speech of a man,'        exploring the relationship between poem and Muse brings new coherence to the poetry,        illuminates the process of its creation, and unlocks the 'second beauty' to which        Yeats referred when he claimed that 'works of lyric genius, when the circumstances        of their origin is known, gain a second a beauty, passing as it were out of        literature and becoming life.'As life emerges from the literature, the Muses are        shown to be vibrant, multi-faceted personalities who shatter the idea of the Muse as        a passive stereotype and take their proper place as begetters of timeless        poetry.

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