Revisiting the Romanticism in Early Yeats
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In this paper I reconsider the inheritance of romanticism in the early poetry of Yeats—especially the 1895 collection of Poems consisting of the sections Crossways (1889) and The Rose (1893). While the pervasive influence of Blake and Shelley on Yeats has received much scholarly attention, it has generally been in reference to Yeats’s later system of symbolism and mythology; the poetry of Yeats’s youth has suffered from comparative neglect. As Yeats strives to integrate the traditional materials of Irish folklore and mythology into his early work, the question of the poet’s relation to the earth emerges as a central concern—one that inevitably draws on the English romantic tradition. I argue that Yeats critically engages with the fundamental themes of romanticism in his earliest poetry, challenging and revising the poet’s link to nature while questioning the efficacy of poetic language. In addition to Blake and Shelley, William Wordsworth emerges as a steady influence on early Yeats, evinced by the various echoes and allusions regarding the status of nature and poetry.
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In this paper I reconsider the inheritance of romanticism in the early poetry of Yeats—especially the 1895 collection of Poems consisting of the sections Crossways (1889) and The Rose (1893). While the pervasive influence of Blake and Shelley on Yeats has received much scholarly attention, it has generally been in reference to Yeats’s later system of symbolism and mythology; the poetry of Yeats’s youth has suffered from comparative neglect. As Yeats strives to integrate the traditional materials of Irish folklore and mythology into his early work, the question of the poet’s relation to the earth emerges as a central concern—one that inevitably draws on the English romantic tradition. I argue that Yeats critically engages with the fundamental themes of romanticism in his earliest poetry, challenging and revising the poet’s link to nature while questioning the efficacy of poetic language. In addition to Blake and Shelley, William Wordsworth emerges as a steady influence on early Yeats, evinced by the various echoes and allusions regarding the status of nature and poetry.
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