Swan and Shadow

Yeats's Dialogue with History

By Thomas Whitaker

352 pp., 6 x 9

  • Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8078-3685-9
    Published: June 2012
  • E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-0-8078-3686-6
    Published: June 2012
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    Published: June 2012

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History was central in a variety of ways to Yeats's poetic development and to the meaning of his work. In this study, Whitaker suggests that history was for the poet a mysterious interlocutor, which Yeats saw at times as a bright reflection of himself and again as a dark force opposed to that self. The poet's internal dialogue is viewed as projection into historical symbolism.

Originally published in 1964.

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