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... W.B. Yeats : Locke sank into a swoon ; The Garden died ; God took the spinning - jenny Out of his side . A ' Philosophy of the Five Senses ' , an industrial , materialist society , and middle - class Philistinism were , on this view ...
... W.B. Yeats : Locke sank into a swoon ; The Garden died ; God took the spinning - jenny Out of his side . A ' Philosophy of the Five Senses ' , an industrial , materialist society , and middle - class Philistinism were , on this view ...
Page 165
... W.B. Yeats , who , unable to believe in any orthodox religion because , as he said , the possibility had been destroyed for him when he was young by Victorian science , built his own symbolic system . ' I am very religious ' , Yeats ...
... W.B. Yeats , who , unable to believe in any orthodox religion because , as he said , the possibility had been destroyed for him when he was young by Victorian science , built his own symbolic system . ' I am very religious ' , Yeats ...
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... W.B. Yeats , who erected a strange personal creed from a variety of sources , expounded it in his book A Vision , and proceeded to draw on that creed for symbols for his poetry . Scholars such as F.A.C. Wilson have analysed Yeats's ...
... W.B. Yeats , who erected a strange personal creed from a variety of sources , expounded it in his book A Vision , and proceeded to draw on that creed for symbols for his poetry . Scholars such as F.A.C. Wilson have analysed Yeats's ...
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