%0 Journal Article 
%A Rowley, Rosemarie
%T The case of W.B. Yeats: mind, nation and literary  landscape
%D 2011
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/20488
%X The emergence of the nation states was one of the fruits of Romanticism, 
and each reborn country needed to rediscover its identity: in Ireland, identity 
was very much tied to the landscape and what remained of the Irish language, 
place-names playing a special role in the evocation of national desires.
A study of these key texts of Yeats’ shows how his dedication to the life of 
the mind mirrored the loss of contact with the natural world. This is true of its 
landscapes and its mythological figures. I hope to show that in an early poem 
“The Song of Wandering Aengus” that in developing an antithetical self, Yeats 
was at significant times not only opposed to Nature intellectually and 
spiritually, but also emotionally. The privileging of the life of the mind over the 
animal self has played in his own life and in his influence what may have been a 
costly division.

%K Literatura
%K Literature
%K Medio ambiente
%K Environmental science
%~ Biblioteca Universidad de Alcala