To Yeats, as well as to Eliot, Pound, Joyce, and other major
writers, as Erich Auerbach put it in Mimesis, "Antiquity means
liberation and a broadening of horizons, not in any sense a new
limitation or servitude." That is why Greco-Roman themes can be
endlessly stimulating, why Yeats could call the Greek and Roman
writers "the builders of my soul." Brian Arkin's thematic
consideration of Yeat's subject matter under philosophy, myth,
religion, history, literature, visual art, and Byzantium, allows us
to see coherently how Yeats exploited this material and how,
especially in his middle and later periods, he transformed and
metamorphosed subject matter from Homer, Phidias, Plato, Plotinus,
and Sophocles, and from the myths of Dionysus, Helen of Troy, Leda,
and Zeus, to exemplify his central preoccupations. Irish Literary
Studies Series No. 32.
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