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S/LI/506. Pound, Yeats and History

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DATE:
2011
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The paper looks at the relationship between poetry and history arguing that both are valuable as a means of understanding the past, and analysing historical references in the poetry of Ezra Pound and William Butler Yeats, a contemporary and friend of Pound. Existential historicism of both poets is discussed reflecting on the accounts of the historical events they witnessed.

 

KEYWORDS: Ezra Pound, Yeats, history,

 
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