'Words for music perhaps': W.B. Yeats and musical sense

<p>‘Poetry’ insisted Ezra Pound, ‘is a composition of words set to music’: his <em>Cantos</em> remembered ‘Uncle Willie’ downstairs composing, singing poetry to himself. This study examines the nature and effects of W.B.Yeats’s idiosyncratic but profound sense of music. For his p...

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Main Author: Paterson, A
Other Authors: O'Donoghue, B
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2007
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