Virgil tells us how « the Argive fleet, drawn up in line abreast, left Tenedos through the aloof moon's friendly stillnesses ». The conflict that opposed Greeks and Trojans inspired Yeats’ metaphoric spirit an opposition of the self and the anti-self…

The plays gathered here are the works of two famous northern Irish dramatists who experienced the ever-present Civil War that they stage with faith and talent. The spirit that enimates Boyd and Friel is the same, the places are different…

The selection of poems in this book is only made of Irish poems in a trilingual version, which allows the reader to witness the process of translating the poems and enter the linguistic multiplicity and the thematic unity of the text at the same time…

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…

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…