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Poetry of William Butler Yeats: The Rose

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Yeats, William Butler

Yeats, William Butler
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Rose

Introduction:

If Crossways was a first book of lyrics dealing with Indian and Irish
themes in a rather derivative and weary pre-Raphaelite manner, the poems of
1893 which appear in the section later called The Rose make more direct use of
imagery drawn from a subject which had long been most important to the young
poet - the occult. The Irish material, of course, remained central. But Yeats
at this point began to blend into it the symbols and concerns of mystical
groups like the theosophists, the Dublin hermetic society and the
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