A Gift of Vision: A Study in the Mythology of William Butler Yeats
Loading...
Authors
Wendelken, Carolyn
Issue Date
1963
Type
Thesis
Language
en_US
Keywords
Alternative Title
Abstract
If it were possible, I would like to crawl into the
mind of William Butler Yeats end trace with him the history of the
myth. Although we cannot become Yeats, we can, through his poetry,
look at the long history of the myth and the mythological as he might
have viewed it. Our definitions may not always be those that the literary
scholar uses when talking about the myth; our examples may not
always be true mythology - often we will be dealing with philosophical
theories that formed the 'myth' of a particular age. But these were
the aspects of mythology that Yeats used and these are the bases for
that part of his thought upon which he built bis personal myth. If
we can clarity the position of the myth throughout history, if we can
trace the ebb and flow of the mythological throughout the ages of man,
we can deal more intelligently with the specific elements of the myth
found in the writing of Yeats.
Description
84 p.
Citation
Publisher
License
U.S. copyright laws protect this material. Commercial use or distribution of this material is not permitted without prior written permission of the copyright holder. All rights reserved.