 | Cary D. Wintz - 1996 - 522 ページ
...a complete edition of his works which was never produced. Stating as his " first principle " that " a poet writes always of his personal life, in his...whatever it be, remorse, lost love, or mere loneliness "; " he goes on to say that he found his subject matter in the Irish resistance movement. He states... | |
 | Richard J. Finneran - 1997 - 394 ページ
...Yeats himself laid down for the interpretation of his work late in his career: "A poet always writes of his personal life, in his finest work out of its...whatever it be, remorse, lost love, or mere loneliness; he never speaks directly as to someone at the breakfast table, there is always a phantasmagoria ...... | |
 | Terri A. Mester - 1997 - 220 ページ
...expressing personal emotions in art, bui like the dancer's face, they must be rendered "cold" (Auto 45). A poet writes always of his personal life, in his finest work out of its tragedy, whatever it be; ... he never speaks directly as to someone at the breakfast table, there is always a phantasmagoria.... | |
 | James Olney - 1998 - 456 ページ
...mother, himself, but it is not of these people the work is thinking. I would invoke Yeats once more: "A poet writes always of his personal life, in his...whatever it be, remorse, lost love, or mere loneliness." And no doubt Beckett did just this. But Yeats goes on to say that even so the poet (and, in his late... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - 2000 - 556 ページ
...ESSAYS FOR THE SCRIBNER EDITION OF YEATS'S COLLECTED WORKS (1937)1 Introduction L THE FIRST PRINCIPLE A poet writes always of his personal life, in his...whatever it be, remorse, lost love, or mere loneliness; he never speaks directly as to someone at the breakfast table, there is always a phantasmagoria. Dante... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - 2001 - 612 ページ
...ambitions, a divine love in sexual passion. 1895 A General Introduction for my Work0 I. THE FIRST PRINCIPLE A poet writes always of his personal life, in his...whatever it be, remorse, lost love, or mere loneliness; he never speaks directly as to someone at the breakfast table, there is always a phantasmagoria. Dante... | |
 | Michael O'Neill - 2004 - 214 ページ
...as a remaking of the self into 'something intended, complete' (pp. 30- 1). [i. THE FIRST PRINCIPLE] A poet writes always of his personal life, in his...whatever it be, remorse, lost love, or mere loneliness; he never speaks directly as to someone at the breakfast table, there is always a phantasmagoria. Dante... | |
 | Richard Poirier - 2003 - 334 ページ
...poetic context: "A poet," says Yeats in the opening sentence of "A General Introduction for My Work," "writes always of his personal life, in his finest...whatever it be, remorse, lost love, or mere loneliness; he never speaks directly as to someone at the breakfast table, there is always a phantasmagoria." Over... | |
 | R. F. Foster - 2005 - 868 ページ
...'Defence of Poetry' as eloquent as Shelley's.56 A poet writes always of his personal life: in his first work out of its tragedy, whatever it be, remorse, lost love, or mere loneliness: he never speaks directly as to someone at the breakfast table. There is always a phantasmagoria. Dante... | |
 | Steven Conn - 2006 - 289 ページ
...himself, but it is not of these people the work is thinking. I would invoke Yeats once more: "A poet wntes always of his personal life, in his finest work out...whatever it be, remorse, lost love, or mere loneliness." And no doubt Beckett did just this. But Yeats goes on to say that even so the poet (and, in his late... | |
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A POET WRITES always of his personal life, in his finest work out of its tragedy, whatever it be, remorse, lost love, or mere loneliness; he never speaks directly as to someone at the breakfast table, there is always a phantasmagoria. 
