‘Now Shall I Make My Soul’: Approaching Death in Yeats’s Life and Work
‘Now Shall I Make My Soul’: Approaching Death in Yeats’s Life and Work
Warton Lecture on English Poetry
This lecture traces W. B. Yeats' preoccupation with the changing forms of death throughout his life, from his fin-de-siécle love-poetry to his poems of death. These poems of death were linked to his interest in Celtic legend, Irish intellectual influences and conjunctions, and magical ritual and psychic research. The lecture considers Yeats' approach to death in his later work, concluding with his creation of a structured canon of work in the light of his own death and the work that he wrote on his deathbed.
Keywords: W.B. Yeats, changing forms of death, fin-de-siécle love-poetry, poems of death, structured canon of work, Celtic legend, Ireland, magical ritual, psychic research, approach to death
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