“Away, come away”: Moving dead women and Irish emigration in W. B. Yeats’s early poetry

Emigration and Ireland are closely entwined in cultural consciousness, yet little scholarly work addresses Irish emigration in W. B. Yeats’s poetry. I use the lens of Irish emigration to tackle another under-discussed phenomenon in Yeats’s early poetry: the physically moving, dead, female body. In t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Simpson, H
Format: Journal article
Published: Presses universitaires de Rennes 2017