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20 décembre 2012
- doi: 10.4000/books.puc.390
- isbn: 9782905461476
- eisbn: 9782841334469
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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littérature irlandaise littérature de langue anglaise poésie Irish literature poetry Literature, British Isles LIT004120 DSBSujets proches
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Seamus Deane, « Yeats and degeneration », Presses universitaires de Caen, ID : 10.4000/books.puc.390
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We take Yeats's word for it that he and his generation were "the last romantics", but that still blinds us to the power of certain aspects of the romantic ideology or ideologies which he shared with his contemporaries. Even more so, it glamourises for us the applications of that ideology in his construction of the idea of Ireland and the very specific role it plays in his poetry. I am concerned here with only one aspect of this enterprise, although I would argue that it is central to an under...