A preface to Yeats /
| Основен автор: | Malins, Edward Greenway. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Scribner,
c1974.
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| Серия: |
Preface books
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| Предмети: |
Съдържание:
- Historical and literary background
- Family trees
- Biographical summaries
- Chronological table
- Education
- Appearance and characteristics
- The history of Ireland as it concerned the poet
- Tales of gods and heroes
- The coming of Christianity
- Gaelic Ireland in Norman, Tudor and Stuart Times
- The Anglo-Irish of the eighteenth century
- The fight for freedom: 1800-1923
- The last years: 1923-1939
- the poet's reading
- Occult and magic
- Plato and neoplatonists
- Giambattista Vico, 1668-1744
- George Berkeley, 1685-1753
- Edmund Burke, 1729-97
- William Blake, 1757-1827
- Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900
- A vision
- Critical survey: Introduction
- To the rose upon the rood of time (cp p.35)
- The players ask for a blessing on the psalteries and on themselves cp p.93
- The fascination of what's difficult cp p.104
- An Irish airman foresees his death cp p.152
- Two songs from a play cp p.239
- Leda and the swan cp p. 241
- Speech after long silence cp p.301
- Her vision in the wood cp p.312
- The three bushes cp p.341
- Under Ben Bulben cp p.397
- Reference section: Yeats's family, friends and acquaintances
- Gazetteer
- Places referred to in the poems
- Yeats's symbols: their origin, connections and attributes
- Common Irish (Gaelic) place names: derivations and pronunciation.