Religion and Politics in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats
Description:
Previous critics have paid insufficient attention to the political implications of Yeats's life-long preoccupation with a wide range of Western and Eastern religious traditions. Though he always preserved some skepticism about mysticism's ability to reshape the material world, the early Yeats valued the mystical idea of oneness in part because he hoped (mistakenly, as it turned out) that such oneness would bring Catholic and Protestant Ireland together in a way that might make the goals of Iris…
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Date:
August 1997
Creator:
Yoo, Baekyun
Partner:
UNT Libraries