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In a paper on 'The Late Poetry of W.B. Yeats', published in 1936, the American critic R.P. Blackmur wrote that 'fatalism, Christianity, and magic are none of them disciplines to which many minds can consciously appeal today.

— from W.B. Yeats and the learning of the imagination, 1999

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W.B. Yeats and the learning of the imagination

1999

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At a time when Yeats studies are narrowing down the focus of interest to the minutiae of the poet's personal life, this book argues that by his 'learning of the Imagination' W. B. Yeats was not only a great poet but also a great imaginative mind. His work marks a cultural watershed in that where as English poetry up to and including Eliot drew upon European civilisation, Yeats additionally drew upon world culture: Irish mythology, Arabic, Japanese, Indian wisdom and much besides. The extent and import of his learning cannot, as the author argues, be appreciated by a mentality that merely reflects current materialist values. The Irish poet stood within a tradition of spiritual and esoteric knowledge which has been largely ignored by his critics making many of their judgements inappropriate. -- from back cover.

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Prentice Hall Literature -- Platinum

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A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book. The word derives from the Italian: novella for 'new', 'news', or 'short story (of something new)', itself from the Latin: novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of novellus, diminutive of novus, meaning 'new'. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, Medieval chivalric romance, and the tradition of the Italian Renaissance novella. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, in the historical romances of Walter Scott and the Gothic novel. Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, and John Cowper Powys, preferred the term romance.

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William Blake

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William Blake was one of the most significant figures of the Romantic era. An artist and poet of outstanding originality, Blake's work gave powerful expression to his own visionary universe, as well as to those of authors such as Milton and Dante. Imagination was of paramount importance to Blake: he believed art must proceed from inner visions and not from the empirical observation of nature.Sumptuously illustrated, this beautiful volume presents the National Gallery of Victoria's Blake holdings, which include illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy, Milton's Paradise Lost and The Book of Job, among other works. It celebrates a creative genius who, through his watercolours, prints and illustrated books, created some of the most compelling and original works of his time.

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