In:
PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, Modern Language Association (MLA), Vol. 64, No. 1 ( 1949-03), p. 40-58
Abstract:
Lady Gregory recorded in her journal in 1925 that Yeats, scorning what he believed to be excessive praise of certain nineteenth and twentieth century poets, said, “These critics ought to think more of the writing. They have given up God, they shouldn't give up perfection.” “Well”, Lady Gregory added, “he practises what he preaches; is working over those old poems as if for a competition for eternity.” 1 Various critics have noted the results of Yeats's competition for eternity in his repeated and elaborate revisions of his early poems; but it has not been demonstrated that he continued to the end of his life to revise almost all his work, new poems as well as old, for successive printings, nor has any study been made of the nature and purposes of Yeats's revisions of the great poems of his last thirty years.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0030-8129
,
1938-1530
Language:
English
Publisher:
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Publication Date:
1949
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7,11
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