 | Gordon Teskey - 1996 - 220 pàgines
...was formed: I thought "After the individualist, demagogic movement, founded by Hobbes and popularised by the Encyclopaedists and the French Revolution, we have a soil so exhausted that it cannot grow that crop again for centuries." Then I thought "Nothing is now possible but some... | |
 | Jonathan Allison - 1996 - 372 pàgines
...answer is supplied by the poet himself in a note on 'Leda and the Swan': I wrote 'Leda and the Swan' because the editor of a political review asked me...individualist, demagogic movement founded by Hobbes [sic] and popularized by the Encyclopaedists and the French Revolution, we have a soil so exhausted... | |
 | David Halliburton - 1997 - 428 pàgines
...exploitation: "I thought 'After the individualist, demagogic movement, founded by Hobbes and popularised by the Encyclopaedists and the French Revolution, we have a soil so exhausted that it cannot grow that crop again for centuries.' Then I thought 'Nothing is now possible but some... | |
 | Wim Tigges - 1999 - 500 pàgines
...the Daemon"27 and was nevertheless meant as a comment on political history: I wrote Leda and the Swan because the editor of a political review asked me...thought, "Nothing is now possible but some movement from above preceded by some violent annunciation" (Poems, 652). The poem is probably the most effective... | |
 | Richard J. Finneran - 2001 - 314 pàgines
...a cyclical inner mechanism. 1n a note, dated 1924, to the poem "Leda and the Swan," Yeats wrote: 1 thought, 'After the individualist, demagogic movement,...the French Revolution, we have a soil so exhausted that it cannot grow that crop again for centuries.' Then 1 thought, 'Nothing is now possible but some... | |
 | George Bornstein - 2001 - 206 pàgines
...size as the poetic text, as though coequal in importance, the note explains: I wrote Leda and the Swan because the editor of a political review asked me for a poem. I thought After the individualistic, demagogic movement, founded by Hobbes and popularised by the Encylopaedists and the... | |
 | William Butler Yeats - 2008 - 450 pàgines
...Tower (London and New York: Macmillan, 1928). In a note in The Dial, WBY explained that he wrote it "because the editor of a political review asked me for a poem." When his friend the editor (JE) told WBY that his "conservative readers would misunderstand the poem"... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1924 - 686 pàgines
...growth of the soul." II FOUR POEMS BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS [AUTHOR'S NOTE: I wrote Leda and the Swan because the editor of a political review asked me...the French Revolution, we have a soil so exhausted that it cannot grow that crop again for centuries." Then I thought, "Nothing is now possible but some... | |
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Leda and the Swan' because the editor of a political review asked me for a poem. I thought 'After the individualist, demagogic movement founded by Hobbes and popularized by the Encyclopaedists and the French revolution, we have a soil so exhausted that... 