TY  - BOOK
AU  - Keane,Patrick J.
TI  - Making the Void Fruitful: Yeats As Spiritual Seeker and Petrarchan Lover
SN  - 9781800643222
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Cambridge, UK
PB  - Open Book Publishers
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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