Biblical echo and allusion in the poetry of W.B. Yeats

by Dwight H. Purdy

1994 169 pages eng

This book treats the poetics of biblical allusion in the lyric poetry of William Butler Yeats, and the ways in which the King James Bible became for Yeats a model for poetry as a communal voice shaping a culture. The introduction analyzes the critical history of what Eleanor Cook has termed the "po…