RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 The case of W.B. Yeats: mind, nation and literary  landscape
A1 Rowley, Rosemarie
K1 Literatura
K1 Literature
K1 Medio ambiente
K1 Environmental science
AB 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.
PB Universidad de Alcalá
YR 2011
FD 2011-04
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/20488
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/20488
LA eng
DS MINDS@UW
RD 25-abr-2024