Author: Levine, Bernard
Title: The Dissolving Image: The Spiritual-Esthetic Development of W.B. Yeats
Description: Detroit, Wayne State University Press, 1970. orig.cloth. 23x15cm, 180 pp. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Yeats's Esthetics & his Concept of the Self; The Transvaluation of Time & Place: Four Poems Reflecting Yeats's Spiritual-Esthetic Development; "Love's Lonely Hour": Spiritual Conflict in 'The Wind Among the Reeds'; The Solitary Man: Emergence of the Daimonic Image in the Later Love Poems; Vision & "Responsibility": "The Second Coming" in Relation to the "Helen" Poems & the Early Poems of Exultation; The Destructive Vision &"Leda & the Swan"; Contemplation & Excitement: The Overriding Vision in Six Late Poems.

Keywords: William Butler Yeats, Irish literature, English poetry, Literary aesthetics, , , , ,