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13 juillet 2017
- handle: 10670/1.e685up
- isbn: 9781783741779
- eisbn: 9782821883994
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Deirdre Toomey, « Olivia Shakespear, Beauty’s Hour », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.e685up
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‘Who ever had a like profile?–a profile from a Sicilian coin’is Yeats’s celebrated tribute to his first lover Olivia Shakespear, after looking at her image in the 1895 Literary Yearbook. That image is reproduced as the cover of this attractive volume from the enterprising Valancourt Press. Yeats was probably thinking of the ‘Arethusa coin’, one of the most beautiful of all Greek coins, from the period of rule of Dionysius I (397 BC-343 BC), which represents the profile of the naiad Arethusa, ...