Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Yeats and the Sacred Book

Yeats and the Sacred Book

Greger, Christoph K.

Paperback

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 1983573973
ISBN13: 9781983573972
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Feb 6 2018
Pages: 70
Weight: 0.22
Height: 0.17 Width: 5.51 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In the 1922 preface to The Trembling of the Veil Yeats writes of a Sacred Book which the generation of the '90's had sought unsuccessfully to bring forth; in 1925 he published A Vision, the writing of which he publicly associated with the search for a Sacred Book. For Yeats the Sacred Book represented the embodiment of the absolute unity of form and content, of image and ideal. During the 1890's, the idea of such a book had shaped both his aesthetic philosophy and his own writing; why, then, should Yeats have resurrected this symbol as part of a public framework and reference to A Vision (1925)? What can we learn about Yeats's earlier conception of the Sacred Book that may shed light upon the aesthetic contexts within which he developed A Vision? If the following study is a work of literary criticism, its subject is a text that could not be written, and the influence of this text upon the writing of W. B. Yeats.

Also in

Literary Criticism

View All