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Builders of My Soul
Brian Arkins
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Greek and Roman Themes in Yeats
出版Rowman & Littlefield, 1990
主題Literary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshPoetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
ISBN03892091399780389209133
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Tel9T_7PcYcC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋To Yeats, as well as to Eliot, Pound, Joyce, and other major writers, as Erich Auerbach put it in Mimesis, "Antiquity means liberation and a broadening of horizons, not in any sense a new limitation or servitude." That is why Greco-Roman themes can be endlessly stimulating, why Yeats could call the Greek and Roman writers "the builders of my soul." Brian Arkin's thematic consideration of Yeat's subject matter under philosophy, myth, religion, history, literature, visual art, and Byzantium, allows us to see coherently how Yeats exploited this material and how, especially in his middle and later periods, he transformed and metamorphosed subject matter from Homer, Phidias, Plato, Plotinus, and Sophocles, and from the myths of Dionysus, Helen of Troy, Leda, and Zeus, to exemplify his central preoccupations. Irish Literary Studies Series No. 32.