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The Celtic Twilight
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You can have your cones and interpenetrating gyres; for me, the unguarded, soppy Romanticism of The Celtic Twilight, based on the diaries the young Yeats kept as he tromped through Irish village life, is the best guide to the obsessions and occult yearnings that animate his poetry, early & late. The anecdotes and rambling asides capture the poet in his native habitat, head in the clouds and feet in the bog of an Ireland that never quite was, but that he needed to shake off the bluff rationalism of his father's generation and put on that questioning, less self-assured thing called the Modern.
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August 3, 2007
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August 3, 2007
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poetry
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August 3, 2007
– Shelved
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August 3, 2007
– Shelved
August 3, 2007
– Shelved as:
poetry
August 3, 2007
– Shelved as:
poetry
(Other Paperback Edition)