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Ideas of Good and Evil (Hardcover)
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Ideas of Good and Evil (Hardcover)
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Ideas of Good and Evil (1903) is a collection of wide-ranging
essays by Irish poet W.B. Yeats. Writing on such subjects as the
art of poetry, politics, and the occult, Yeats proves himself to be
not only a master of verse and drama, but an immensely talented
essayist and thorough scholar. "What is 'Popular Poetry'?" reflects
on a changing Irish literary landscape which has, over the course
of Yeats' career, established its own place in world literature
apart from, and perhaps surpassing, its English counterpart.
Juxtaposing "the poetry of the coteries, which presupposes the
written tradition" and "the true poetry of the people, which
presupposes the unwritten tradition," Yeats argues that the spirit
of Irish poetry depends on its unfaltering connection to the
itinerant bards and storytellers whose gift for musicality and
memory kept language alive for a widely illiterate people. In
"Magic," Yeats, a longtime member of the Hermetic Order of the
Golden Dawn, discusses his belief in the occult. Musing on the
power of symbol to evoke memories, as well as the revelation of his
past lives, Yeats provides personal anecdotes and secondhand
accounts of magical occurrences and experiences, exposing a world
secrets and hidden meaning for believers and the uninitiated alike.
"The Philosophy of Shelley's Poetry" is an academic essay in which
Yeats argues that Shelley's poems far surpass the radical
ideologies of such figures as William Godwin. Ideas of Good and
Evil showcases the diverse intellectual and spiritual interests of
W.B. Yeats, an icon of Irish literature and one of the twentieth
century's leading poetic voices. With a beautifully designed cover
and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of W.B. Yeats's
Ideas of Good and Evil is a classic of Irish literature reimagined
for modern readers.
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