«Rewording in melodious guile» W.B. Yeats’s <em>The Song of the Happy Shepherd</em> and its Evolution Towards a Musico-Literary Manifesto
This essay intends to explore how The Song of the Happy Shepherd elaborates on the notion of poetry as song, to contextualize it against the background of its (para)textual history and evolution, and emphasize its role as a musico-literary manifesto. Yeats’s Song is able to perform its variations on...
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Firenze University Press
2013-03-01
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| Series: | Studi Irlandesi : a Journal of Irish Studies |
| Online Access: | https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/bsfm-sijis/article/view/7153 |