W.B. Yeats and the Muses
W.B. Yeats and the Muses
- ISBN 13:
9780198746027
- ISBN 10:
0198746024
- Edition: Reprint
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 08/04/2015
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
Because Yeats believed that lyric poetry 'is no rootless flower, but the speech of a man,' exploring the relationship between poem and Muse brings new coherence to the poetry, illuminates the process of its creation, and unlocks the 'second beauty' to which Yeats referred when he claimed that 'works of lyric genius, when the circumstances of their origin is known, gain a second a beauty, passing as it were out of literature and becoming life.'
As life emerges from the literature, the Muses are shown to be vibrant, multi-faceted personalities who shatter the idea of the Muse as a passive stereotype and take their proper place as begetters of timeless poetry.