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The Art of Literary Biography, Part 5 of 7: Byron, Greene, and Yeats
Leland Lyons, Leslie Marchand, and Norman Sherry discuss their research and writing practices and the issues they encounter as biographers of W. B. Yeats, Lord Byron (George Gordon), and Graham Greene, respectively. The scholars address the distinction between literary criticism and … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Lyons, F. S. L., Marchand, Leslie Alexis, Sherry, Norman
Tagged George Gordon Lord Byron, Graham Greene, Literary biography, Literary Criticism, New Criticism, William Butler Yeats
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Mysticism and William Butler Yeats
George Mills Harper speaks with Kent Mullikin about the life and writing of William Butler Yeats, with an emphasis on Yeats’s interest in the occult, which included experiments with automatic writing, and the presence of spirits or “communications” in automatic … Continue reading
Posted in Episodes, Harper, George Mills, Mullikin, Kent
Tagged Automatic Writing, Occult Practices, Poetry, William Butler Yeats
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