Dreadful Sentiments
Tom Paulin, 3 April 1986
The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats. Vol. I: 1865-1895
edited by John Kelly and Eric Domville.
Oxford, 548 pp., £22.50, January 1986,0 19 812679 4 Show More
edited by John Kelly and Eric Domville.
Oxford, 548 pp., £22.50, January 1986,
“... Styles: The Tradition of an Idea’, the country’s most significant and influential critic, Seamus Deane, has criticised the way in which an acceptance of ‘the mystique of Irish-ness’ can involve readers in the ‘spiritual heroics’ of a Yeats or a Pearse. The result is a belief in ‘the incarnation of the nation in the individual’. ... ”