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for her wisdom and friendship “based as it is upon that perennial philosophy by which we both live.”21 It is the throw-away phrase “by which we both live” that opens up the problem at hand. Back in 1958 ... , the phrase “perennial philosophy” would have pointed most readers to Aldous Huxley’s 1946 book, The Perennial Philosoph.yHuxley’s book (which is largely an anthology of spiritual writings, with his own
Dublin” Yeats’s first three entries, or “thoughts,” are numbered, the first one reflecting his political life in Dublin on this date, or literally the day before the entry, when he had been told by the ... Rapallo and his renunciation of political office: “I have ceased to be a Senator” (L 749, WBY to TB dated “Dec 20 [1928]” from Via Americhe 12-8, Rapallo). Thought “(2)” on leaf 1r (see above) and this
this general trend toward making A Vision legible to a new generation of readers. Four years later, Gibson and Mann compiled another collection, Yeats, Philosophy, and the Occult, which aims to place
the bibliographic codes of type, ink, paper, page layout, book design and production, and all the political and social implications of their encounters with readerships are worth the scrutiny of book ... , once let loose on philosophy after the publication of A Vision(1925), both Bergson and Plotinus were read and reread by Yeats while preparing many of the poems that made up The Tower,The Winding Stai
symbolic language in a way that is neither a materialist critique of metaphysics per se, nor, at the other extreme, an evangelical call to endorse something like the ‘perennial philosophy.’” Morash’s ... attendant political and cultural valences. George understood the collaborative nature of textual production, one that was clear to him as a scholar as well. He was also a firm believer in the value of close
per se, nor, at the other extreme, an evangelical call to endorse something like the ‘perennial philosophy.’” Morash’s emphasis on both the visual and aural elements of The Herne’s Egg makes an apposite
vague sense of the famous poet to bolster their own authority. Elizabeth Cullingford’s 2001 essay, “Reading Yeats in Popular Culture,” considers advertisements, political speeches, tourist traps, films ... essay, therefore, considers a different type of text than a film, television series, political speech, or advertisement. In order to emphasize this textual difference, I view internet memes as
description lingers especially on the souvenirs and trappings of imperial travel, colonial governance, and political success: In the hall, or at one’s right hand as one ascended the stairs, hung Persian ... Galway. . . . I can remember someone saying: “Balzac would have given twenty pages to the stairs.” (Au 391) His images repeatedly evoke masculine achievement, but it is a masculinity of political prowess
acknowledged the onset of what would become a lifelong fascination n a letter addressed to Lady Gregory on December 26, 1902, William Butler with Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy: “Dear Friend,” he confesses: I ... quintessential hallmark of Nietzsche’s philosophy. In “A Dialogue of Self and Soul,” for example, the speaker strikes a defiant and affirmative note: “I am content to live it all again / And yet again if it be
Yeats’s attitudes toward India. Instead, several essays offer fascinating interpretations of Kipling’s or Yeats’s texts in light of ancient Indian literature and philosophy. For instance, Amiya Bhushan ... nationalist writer. Prashant K. Sinha explores Yeats’s political visions through select plays such as The Countess Cathleen, Cathleen ni Hou,lThiheaDnreaming of the Bone,s and Purgator, yand a selection of his
social and political realm, and a conception of it as socially engaged, or politically committed. Within this debate, the dominant position of those who argue for the autonomy of literature, especially ... within the Anglophone tradition, has been that literature is useful in different ways than overtly political writing. The most hyperbolic expression of this is the famous concluding sentence of Percy
students to recognize the determination and joyousness of the old speaker, the tempestuous moments of (political and personal) transformation, and the enduring search for an elusive (and idealized) figure ... and future embodied in the anthropomorphized trout. Indian students of poetry—who are likely to be unfamiliar with Irish political contexts but who study the World War II in their history syllabi—often
poetry, how poems appear in the world, and to interpret a work differently in its various material forms with their attendant political and cultural valences. George understood the collaborative nature of ... refusal of Hugh Lane’s gift of French paintings to establish a modern art gallery for Ireland. He showed us how little is left of this poem as radical political speech by the time it appears in the vastly
poets. Had they not done so, he suggests, “She” (Gonne) might have experienced a love capable of preserving her from the worldly, political tumult that Yeats so often blamed for separating her from his ... changes in twentieth-century Irish society and in the nation’s cultural aesthetics. All three artists lived or performed in Ireland as political refugees, and brought new performance styles and training
stage for the public, political persona that many scholars usually consider having emerged much later in Yeats’s caree.r As Volpicelli nicely concludes: on the circuit, the poet learned that he had to
” continues to exert ever-expanding and complicating influences on the way we write, read, and respond to poetry, the idea of “nation” still preoccupies our minds, in both a familial and a political sense
political performance in Europe and Ireland, his theatre is often seen as a space which fosters exclusion, conventional notions of heroism, and sexual polarization. Even though the authoritarian and elitist ... ideal. These inspirations included the occult, ancient Greece, ancient Ind-ia and tric philosophy, the Noh theater, the great New Women artists of the ti Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poetry, Sergei Diaghilev’s
not in his library, his notes are in Rapallo Notebook E (NLI MS 13 , 582 ). For consideration and transcriptions see Matthew Gibson, appendix A in Yeats, Philosophy, and the Oc,ceudl.t Matthew Gibson
concentrates on his early years when he first came to terms with Indian philosophy, religion, and literature via the Vedāntist-Theosophist Mohini Chatterjee and the work of the fifth-century Sanskrit playwright ... the account of Francesca Arundale, Blavatsky’s London hostess, “[v]ery often Mohini Chatterji [sic] would answer questions on Indian philosophy. I have rarely met with anyone who could give such clear
so for he confused the twelve sided figure in the Timeus
with the zodiac. Astrology had its theoretic foundation in some part of great
mathematic philosophy that has been lost, but now
{ that Mr ... Sankara no abstract philosophy
