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Contents: a packet for Ezra Pound; stories of Michael Robartes and his friends: an extract from a record made by his pupils; phases of moon; great wheel; completed symbol; soul in judgment; great year of ancients; dove or swan; all soul's night, an epilogue. With many figures and illustrations.Tags
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I have read portions of Yeats' "A Vision" quoted online, seeking to determine what and how Yeats learned ancient source texts.
Apparently Yeats wanted to look into cabbalistic texts
to derive his system of personality, but never actually did. Instead, it looks like Yeats stopped at the language barrier and depended on others to digest source material. Thus it seems Yeats' system is based on his understanding of his aquaintances' translations/interpretations to him.
In a similar situation, James Joyce actually learned the languages of original cabbalistic texts. Joyce's written works after his cabbala are, linguistically, remarkably different than before. At least a great change in Joyce's writing is approximately close enough to his own show more language study, learning to read Hebrew and Aramaic, to speculate that the material in original languages added to his reading, influenced him toward the subjective shorthand he adopted in his writing style. Joyce became the adopted "bohemian" or son-in-law mentioned in my comments and reveiews of Sir Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson/ show less
Apparently Yeats wanted to look into cabbalistic texts
to derive his system of personality, but never actually did. Instead, it looks like Yeats stopped at the language barrier and depended on others to digest source material. Thus it seems Yeats' system is based on his understanding of his aquaintances' translations/interpretations to him.
In a similar situation, James Joyce actually learned the languages of original cabbalistic texts. Joyce's written works after his cabbala are, linguistically, remarkably different than before. At least a great change in Joyce's writing is approximately close enough to his own show more language study, learning to read Hebrew and Aramaic, to speculate that the material in original languages added to his reading, influenced him toward the subjective shorthand he adopted in his writing style. Joyce became the adopted "bohemian" or son-in-law mentioned in my comments and reveiews of Sir Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson/ show less
> Babelio : https://www.babelio.com/livres/Yeats-Vision/380832
> Clé pour comprendre l’oeuvre de Yeats, ce texte en prose écrit dans une langue magnifique constitue selon le critique anglais C. Brooks « la tentative la plus ambitieuse d’un poète pour créer un mythe ».
—R.M., L'espace intérieur
> Clé pour comprendre l’oeuvre de Yeats, ce texte en prose écrit dans une langue magnifique constitue selon le critique anglais C. Brooks « la tentative la plus ambitieuse d’un poète pour créer un mythe ».
—R.M., L'espace intérieur
Jan 2, 2021 (Edited)French
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William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin, Ireland on June 13, 1865. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and, along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn, and others, founded the Abbey Theatre, where he served as its chief playwright until the movement was joined by John Synge. Yeats' plays included The Countess Cathleen, The Land of show more Heart's Desire, Cathleen ni Houlihan, The King's Threshold, and Deirdre. Although a convinced patriot, Yeats deplored the hatred and the bigotry of the Nationalist movement, and his poetry is full of moving protests against it. He was appointed to the Irish Senate in 1922. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923 for what the Nobel Committee described as "inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation." He is one of the few writers who completed their greatest works after being awarded the Nobel Prize. His poetry collections include The Wild Swans at Coole, Michael Robartes and the Dancer, The Tower, The Winding Stair and Other Poems, and Last Poems and Plays. He died on January 28, 1939 at the age of 73. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- A Vision
- Original title
- A Vision
- Original publication date
- 1925
- People/Characters
- Michael Robartes
- Epigraph
- "This way of publishing introductions to books , that are God knows when to come out, is either wholly new, or so long in practice that my small reading cannot trace it."- Swift
- First words
- The other day, Lady Gregory said to me : "You are a much better educated man than you were ten years ago and much more powerful in argument".
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Shall we follow the image of Heracles that walks through the darkness bow in hand, or mount to that other Heracles, man, not image, he that has for his bride Hebe, "The daughter of Zeus, the mighty, and Hera, shod with gold"?
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- englanti
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- 828.91 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English miscellaneous writings English miscellaneous writings 1900- English miscellaneous writings 1900-1999
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- PR5904 .V5 — Language and Literature English English Literature 19th century , 1770/1800-1890/1900
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