W.B. Yeats: Metaphysician as Dramatist
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Heather C. Martin., & Heather C. Martin|AUTHOR. (1986). W.B. Yeats: Metaphysician as Dramatist . Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

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Heather C. Martin and Heather C. Martin|AUTHOR. 1986. W.B. Yeats: Metaphysician As Dramatist. Wilfrid Laurier University Press.

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Heather C. Martin and Heather C. Martin|AUTHOR. W.B. Yeats: Metaphysician As Dramatist Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1986.

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In this book, the author traces "the history of the soul" as it is developed in Yeats's plays. She elucidates the underlying system of thought in the drama and establishes its importance to the aim and execution of the plays by drawing attention to a few of the central themes, metaphors, and symbols through which it is developed.

The manuscript and the earliest published versions of the plays are indispensable to this study as they retain much of the abstract thought which Yeats eliminated from the later versions. Martin traces the development of the metaphors and images which gradually replaced Yeats's abstractions. In the process, she is able to uncover new meaning in the plays, as many subtle and obscure passages become clearly understandable.
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