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This book on W.B. Yeats' poetry aims to make the approach to his often difficult poems easier and shows their beauty. After a chronology and an overview of the historic context, the first part « At the origin of the work » studies the numerous influences: celtic, oriental…
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Jacqueline Genet
This volume covers the essential aspects of Yeats' poetry that is guided by a concern for unity. This quest is studied under two different lights: the search for dialectic identity of the nature and spirit…
W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) is known as one of the best poets of his time. He is less known, especially in France, for his numerous theatre plays…
Yeats, one of the greatest English-language poets, had never been the object of a long-term critical work in France. This volume fills in this gap, studying the poetic creation — at the same time the work created and the creative process…
Les fondements et l'évolution de la création poétique
For Yeats, the concept of music in its relation to words originated in his interest in diction that stresses rhythm and thus gets close to chanting. He also associated music and writing, inviting the poets to write…
