Making the Void Fruitful : Yeats As Spiritual Seeker and Petrarchan Lover.
Shedding fresh light on the life and work of William Butler Yeats--widely acclaimed as the major English-language poet of the twentieth century--this new study by leading scholar Patrick J. Keane questions established understandings of the Irish poet's long fascination with the occult: a fixati...
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Cambridge, UK :
Open Book Publishers,
2021.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Part One - W. B. Yeats as Spiritual Seeker
- General Prologue: The Thinking of the Body
- 1. Introduction: Bodily Decrepitude and the Imagination
- 2. Hermeticism, Theosophy, Gnosticism
- 3. The Seeker
- 4. The Byzantium Poems and Apocalypse in 'The Secret Rose' and 'The Second Coming'
- 5. Gnosis and Self-Redemption
- 6. Sex, Philosophy, and the Occult
- 7. Mountain Visions and Other Last Things
- Part Two - Love's Labyrinth: Yeats as Petrarchan Poet (The Maud Gonne Poems)
- Preface to Part Two
- 8. Poet and Muse
- 9. Maud Gonne, and Yeats as Petrarchan Lover
- 10: The Poems: A Sampling
- 11. Rose, Wind, and the Seven Woods
- 12. Maud as Helen: The Green Helmet Poems
- 13. Responsibilities and The Wild Swans at Coole
- 14. 'A Bronze Head' and Beyond
- 15. Thought Distracted: 'Man and the Echo,' 'Politics,' and Conclusion
- Eulogy: Harold Bloom (1930-2019)
- Select Bibliography
- Index.