The spiring treadmill and the preposterous pig : the accommodation of science in the political, occult and poetic development of W.B. Yeats, 1885-1905
Johnson defined metaphysical poetry as a violent yoking together of heterogeneous ideas. Such a process, I suggest, is developed in Yeats's work. The early desire to "hammer" his conflicting "thoughts into unity" bears fruit in the mature verse. The "thoughts long knitt...
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Royal Holloway, University of London
1985
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