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...
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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 fixation that repelled literary contemporaries T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden, but which enhanced Yeats's vision of life and death
Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Part One : W.B. Yeats as Spiritual Seeker ; General Prologue: The Thinking of the Body / Patrick Keane ; 1. Introduction: Bodily Decrepitude and the Imagination / Patrick Keane ; 2. Hermeticism, Theosophy, Gnosticism / Patrick Keane ; 3. The Seeker / Patrick Keane ; 4. The Byzantium Poems; Apocalypse in 'The Secret Rose' and 'The Second Coming' / Patrick Keane ; 5. Gnosis and Self-Redemption / Patrick Keane ; 6. Sex, Philosophy, and the Occult / Patrick Keane ; 7. Mountain Visions and Other Last Things / Patrick Keane -- Part Two. Love's Labyrinth: Yeats as Petrarchan Poet (The Maud Gonne Poems) ; Preface to Part Two / Patrick Keane ; 8. Poet and Muse / Patrick Keane ; 9. Maud Gonne, and Yeats as Petrarchan Lover / Patrick Keane ; 10. The Poems: A Sampling / Patrick Keane ; 11. Rose, Wind, and the Seven Woods / Patrick Keane ; 12. Maud as Helen: The Green Helmet Poems / Patrick Keane ; 13. Responsibilities and The Wild Swans at Coole / Patrick Keane ; 14. A Bronze Head and Beyond / Patrick Keane ; 15. Thought Distracted: Man and the Echo, Politics, and Conclusion / Patrick Keane ; Eulogy: Harold Bloom (1930-2019) / Patrick Keane -- Select Bibliography -- Index
