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Doody, Noreen The Influence of Oscar Wilde on W.B. Yeats "An Echo of Someone Else’s Music"

Examines the relationship between Wilde and Yeats for the first time across a book-length study Argues that the image and concepts of Oscar Wilde lie at the very core of Yeats’s creative work Pays close attention to unpublished manuscript versions of Yeats’s plays This book asserts that Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) was a major precursor of W.B. Yeats (1865 – 1939), and shows how Wilde’s image and intellect set in train a powerful influence within Palgrave Macmillan Yeats’s creative imagination that remained active throughout the poet’s life. The intellectual 1st ed. 2018, VIII, 340 p. concepts, metaphysical speculations and artistic symbols and images which Yeats appropriated 1st from Wilde changed the poet’s perspective and informed the imaginative system of beliefs that edition Yeats formulated as the basis of his dramatic and poetic work. Section One, 'Influence and Identity' (1888 – 1895), explores the personal relationship of these two writers, their nationality and historical context as factors in influence. Section Two, 'Mask and Image' (1888 Printed book – 1917), traces the creative process leading to Yeats’s construction of the antithetical mask, Hardcover and his ideas on image, in relation to the role of Wilde as his precursor. Finally, 'Salomé: Symbolism, Dance and Theories of Being' (1891 – 1939) concentrates on the immense Printed book influence that Wilde’s symbolist play, Salomé, wrought on Yeats’s imaginative work and creative Hardcover sensibility. ISBN 978-3-319-89547-5 £ 74,99 | CHF 100,50 | 84,99 € | 93,49 € (A) | 90,94 € (D) Order online at springer.com/booksellers Springer Nature Customer Service Center GmbH Available Customer Service Discount group Tiergartenstrasse 15-17 Palgrave Monograph (P6) 69121 Heidelberg Product category Germany T: +49 (0)6221 345-4301 Monograph [email protected] Other renditions Softcover ISBN 978-3-030-07800-3 Softcover ISBN 978-3-319-89549-9

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