W. B. YEATSの詩の現実感覚について

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It is not easy to criticize Yeat's poems over his every period, in a Short space, for his activities have been so varied and his works do not divide in fixed periods nor fit into convenient categories. During a long life, from 1865 to 1939, he was the wan young Celt haunting the twilight, the founder and director of the Abbey Theatre, the folklorist, and experimentor in Spiritualism,-and above these roles, prompting them all, he was a poet. During his life and also since his death, he has come to be criticized by various poets and critics, who have build up a variety of unconnected pictures. And the more he is criticized, the more elusive he has come. Even in his poetic life, he was the nervous romantic sighing through the reeds in the 'eighties and 'nineties and the worldly realist in the 'twenties, and the last romantic in his later years. E. Wilson praised Yeats' imagination connecting fantasies, myths, symbols and reality. S. Spender praised realistic and passionate Yeats. But J. M. Murry blamed Yeats' myths and romanticism. In spite of these writings, all through his poems, we are faced to various obscurities of his poems, above all, his obscure sense of reality. Perhaps he himself had many deep contradictions in his mind, and he covered his self at each time with mysterious masks. It is the aim of this essay, not to uncover these masks but to pry into them especially on realistic poems in the 'twenties. And to what extent he succeed or failed in connecting his myths and reality, is still left questionable from many critical points, and this problem I have tried to solve. The reference books as good guides to this study are, R. Ellmann's Yeats: The Man and The Masks (1948), S. Spender's The Creative Element (1953), and The Permanence of Yeats (1951) which contains E. Wilson's, S. Spender's, and J. M. Murry's analyses and many others.
財団法人日本英文学会の論文
1955-03-30

W. B. YEATSの詩の現実感覚について

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