The Image of the Feminine in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats and Angelos Sikelianos
The Image of the Feminine in the Poetry of W.B. Yeats and Angelos Sikelianos

Author: Anastasia Psoni

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2018-12-19

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 1527523802

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Modernism, as a powerful movement, saw the literary and artistic traditions, as well as pure science, starting to evolve radically, creating a crisis, even chaos, in culture and society. Within this chaos, myth offered an ordered picture of that world employing symbolic and poetic images. Both W.B. Yeats and Angelos Sikelianos embraced myth and symbols because they liberate imagination and raise human consciousness, bringing together humans and the cosmos. Being opposed to the rigidity of scientific materialism that inhibits spiritual development, the two poets were waiting for a new age and a new religion, expecting that they, themselves, would inspire their community and usher in the change. In their longing for a new age, archaeology was a magnetic field for Yeats and Sikelianos, as it was for many writers and thinkers. After Sir Arthur Evans’s discovery of the Minoan Civilization where women appeared so peacefully prominent, the dream of re-creating a gynocentric mythology was no longer a fantasy. In Yeats’s and Sikelianos’s gynocentric mythology, the feminine figure appears in various forms and, like in a drama, it plays different roles. Significantly, a gynocentric mythology permeates the work of the two poets and this mythology is of pivotal importance in their poetry, their poetics and even in their life as the intensity of their creative desire brought to them female personalities to inspire and guide them. Indeed, in Yeats’s and Sikelianos’s gynocentric mythology, the image of the feminine holds a place within a historical context taking the reader into a larger social, political and religious space.

Beloved Image
Beloved Image

Author: Nancy Ann Watanabe

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13:

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This book goes beyond most studies of Yeats to probe the depths of this famous poet's visual imagination. In a thorough and decisive explanation, Nancy Watanabe covers Yeat's twenty-four major plays, analyzing the text for the poetic cinematographic, theocentric, cosmological, biotechnical, and dramatic elements of the poet's vision. She also contributes to the criticism of Yeats by establishing the various ways that the poet attempted to embrace all of the laws of human fate. Unique in her approach, Watanabe demonstrates how Yeats included his knowledge of Japanese religious theater, Victorian poetry, French symbolism, and American inventiveness. Readers of this book will gain not only a thorough knowledge of Yeat's poetry, but also a new way of looking at a widely studied poet.

The Yeats Circle, Verbal and Visual Relations in Ireland, 1880-1939
The Yeats Circle, Verbal and Visual Relations in Ireland, 1880-1939

Author: Karen E. Brown

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9780754666448

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Focusing on W.B. Yeats's ideal of mutual support between the arts and on the cultural production of the Yeats circle members, Karen Brown explores the artistic relationships and outcome of Yeats's vision in five case studies. In so doing, the author makes use of primary materials and fresh archival evidence, and delves into a variety of media, including embroidery, print, illustration, theatre, costume design, poetry, and painting.

The Tower
The Tower

Author: William Butler Yeats

Publisher: Renard Press Ltd

Published: 1928

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 1804470643

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First published in 1928, The Tower was Yeats’s first collection published after receiving the Nobel Prize in 1923, and it is perhaps the major work that most cemented his reputation as one of the foremost literary figures of the twentieth century. The titular poem, ‘The Tower’, refers to Thoor Ballylee Castle, a Norman tower that Yeats purchased in 1917, and which formed the basis of the original cover design – evoked in the cover of this edition. The collection also includes some of his most inventive and profound work, and develops deep themes regarding life, love and myth. With explanatory notes, this edition seeks to bring the collection to a greater readership and to offer a more profound understanding of the great poet’s work.

W. B. Yeats, 1865–1939
W. B. Yeats, 1865–1939

Author: Joseph Maunsell Hone

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1989-10-27

Total Pages: 522

ISBN-13: 1349203092

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This is a biographical account of Yeats' life detailing his early family life, his schooldays, his London years, his rise to literary fame, his relationships and marriage, his Oxford period and his career in public life.

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Publisher: Arihant Publications India limited

Published:

Total Pages: 889

ISBN-13: 9326192512

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The Feminine Image in Literature
The Feminine Image in Literature

Author:

Publisher: Hayden

Published: 1973

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13:

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The phantom lady and the marble/plastic doll. The phantom lady. La belle dame sans merci / John Keats -- The phantom horsewoman / Thomas Hardy -- She was a phantom of delight / William Wordsworth -- Ligeia / Edgar Allan Poe -- A song of praise / Countee Cullen -- The crystal cabinet / William Blake -- Adam's curse / William Butler Yeats -- All things to all men / M. Esther Harding. The phantom lady and the marble/plastic doll. The marble/plastic doll. Playboy / Richard Wilbur -- Miss temptation / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -- To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell -- The strength of God / Sherwood Anderson -- The flea / John Donne -- Song ; Visions of the daughters of Albion / William Blake. The virgin shrouded in snow : the nun syndrome. The Lady of Shalott / Alfred, Lord Tennyson -- Apple blossom in Brittany / Ernest Dowson -- Sonnet 3 / William Shakespeare -- The soul selects her own society / Emily Dickinson -- Plead for me / Emily Brontë -- The book of Thel / William Blake -- The woman at the Washington Zoo / Randall Jarrell -- Christabel / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Sadie and Maud / Gwendolyn Brooks. The masked word : martyrs, mannequins and monsters. The marriage of masks. The applicant / Sylvia Plath -- Lappin and Lapinova / Virginia Woolf -- The mask / William Butler Yeats -- The birthmark / Nathaniel Hawthorne. The masked word : martyrs, mannequins and monsters. Martyrs. Next day / Randall Jarrell -- To an uneducated woman / Sappho -- Mother / Sherwood Anderson -- The jailor / Sylvia Plath. The masked word : martyrs, mannequins and monsters. Mannequins and monsters. from The four Zoas. Urizen's work ; Urizen's book of brass / William Blake -- The furniture of a woman's mind / Jonathan Swift -- Song ; Woman's constancy / John Donne -- from Jerusalem, the desolate world / William Blake -- The foolish virgin / George Gissing -- A prayer for my daughter / William Butler Yeats. The androgynous mind : the marriage of self and soul. Sonnet 130 / William Shakespeare -- Woman / Randall Jarrell -- The mental traveller / William Blake -- A woman waits for me / Walt Whitman -- The question answered / William Blake -- To Eros / Sappho -- To Eros / Sappho -- Us / Anne Sexton -- Sonnet 116 / William Shakespeare -- Wedding procession from a window / James A. Emanuel -- Most like an arch this marriage / John Ciardi -- The daughters of Los / William Blake -- Michael Robartes and the dancer / William Butler Yeats -- A dialogue of Elf and Mole / Barbara Warren -- For witches / Susan Sutheim -- "In trouble" / Jane Harriman -- from A room of one's own, chapter six / Virginia Woolf -- from The second sex, conclusion / Simone de Beauvoir -- Man and woman / Carl Jung -- Ah! sun-flower / William Blake.