Essays and introductions/ W.B. Yeats

Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939)

Verlag: London : Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1961

Beschreibung

Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: xi, 530 pages; portraits. Contents: Essays--Ideas of good and evil; The cutting of an agate. Later essays and introductions. Contents: 1. Ideas of good and evil: What is 'popular poetry'? -- Speaking to the psaltery -- Magic -- The happiest of the poets -- The philosophy of Shelley's poetry -- At Stratford-on-Avon -- William Blake and the imagination -- William Blake and his illustrations to the Divine comedy -- Symbolism in painting -- The symbolism of poetry -- The theatre -- The Celtic element in literature -- The autumn of the body -- The moods -- The body of the Father Christian Rosencrux -- The return of Ulysses -- Ireland and the arts -- The Galway plains -- Emotion of multitude -- 2. The cutting of an agate: Certain noble plays of Japan -- The tragic theatre -- Poetry and tradition -- Discoveries -- Preface to the first edition of The well of the saints -- Preface to the first edition of John M. Synge's Poems and translations -- J.M. Synge and the Ireland of his time -- John Shawe-Taylor -- Art and ideas -- Edmund Spenser -- [3.] later essays and introduction: Gitanjali -- Bishop Berkeley -- My friend's book -- Prometheus unbound -- An Indian monk -- Louis Lambert -- The holy mountain -- DtThe Mandukya Upanishad -- Parnell -- Modern poetry -- A general introduction for my work -- An introduction for my plays. Subjects: Blake, William 1757-1827. Shelley, Percy Bysshe 1792-1822. Spenser, Edmund 1552?-99. Synge, J. M. (John Millington) 1871-1909. Literature History and criticism. Literature Addresses, essays, lectures. Genre: Illustrated. Literature. 1 Kg. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 326594

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Titel: Essays and introductions/ W.B. Yeats

Verlag: London : Macmillan and Co., Limited

Erscheinungsdatum: 1961

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag

Auflage: 1st edition.