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20 décembre 2012
- doi: 10.4000/books.puc.394
- 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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Katharine Worth, « Meeting Places of Life, Poetry and Theatre: 'The Circus Animals' Desertion' », Presses universitaires de Caen, ID : 10.4000/books.puc.394
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'The Circus Animals' Desertion' is a poem about the intertwining of life and art: the ageing poet, in his seventies, looks back at work written in his twenties and in early middle age, scrutinising it to see how much of his real life went into it. The poem was published (in journals) in January 1939, the month in which Yeats died, so has the poignancy of last words. But it offers another special fascination; the impression it gives us of being taken behind the scenes, shown the play from the ...