The Influence of Oscar Wilde on W.B. Yeats "An Echo of Someone Else's Music" /

• Main Author: Doody, Noreen (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: British literature.; Literature, Modern-20th century.; Poetry.; British and Irish Literature.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; Poetry and Poetics.

This book asserts that Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) was a major precursor of W.B. Yeats (1865 - 1939), and shows how Wilde's image and intellect set in train a powerful influence within Yeats's creative imagination that remained active throughout the poet's life. The intellectual concept...