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13 juillet 2017
- handle: 10670/1.uwd4vd
- isbn: 9781783741779
- eisbn: 9782821883994
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Yeats Annual Institute of English Studies Irish poetry Ireland rare books Literature, British Isles Poetry LIT014000 DSCSujets proches
Poems Thinking Thoughts Mind Speciation (Biology) Bibliography--Rare books Book rarities Poetry--Philosophy Poems Verses (Poetry) Recreations Operas--History and criticism Opera, Comic Opera--History and criticism Comic opera Lyric drama Sea, The Oceans World literature Western literature (Western countries) Belles-lettres Irish Free State Influence and resultsCiter ce document
Warwick Gould, « Yeats and the Flying Dutchman », Open Book Publishers, ID : 10670/1.uwd4vd
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This is not a note on Yeats and Richard Wagner’s opera Der fliegende Holländer (premiered in 1843). Instead, it concerns itself with the rôle played in the evolution of Yeats’s thinking by the influential myth of the ‘legendary ghost ship’ that can never make port and is doomed to sail the oceans forever, captained by a species of the Wandering Jew figure. I trace thereby the source of his early play Mosada (1886), and the influence of the myth in the form in which Yeats originally encountere...