Blake and Yeats: the politics of poetry.
Formal remarks by George Ochoa at a Catholic Worker Friday Night Meeting in New York. Ochoa discusses the political views of William Blake and William Butler Yeats and how each poet represented those beliefs in their poems. Blake's views on the American Revolution, especially in his poem "...
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding Cassette Audio Book |
| Language: | English |
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1985.
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| Summary: | Formal remarks by George Ochoa at a Catholic Worker Friday Night Meeting in New York. Ochoa discusses the political views of William Blake and William Butler Yeats and how each poet represented those beliefs in their poems. Blake's views on the American Revolution, especially in his poem "America," are illuminated. Yeats' changing views of revolutionary Irish politics, his relationship with Maude Gonne and his poem "Easter, 1916" are discussed in some detail. |
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| Item Description: | Title from archival inventory. |
| Physical Description: | 1 sound cassette (57 min.) : analog. |
| Access: | Open to all users. |