The Influence of Oscar Wilde on W.B. Yeats
Doody, Noreen![The Influence of Oscar Wilde on W.B. Yeats](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/322/32290114/CHSBZCOP0332290114.jpg)
This book asserts that Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) was a major precursor of W.B. Yeats (1865 - 1939), and shows how Wilde's image and intellect set in train a powerful influence within Yeats's creative imagination that remained active throughout the poet's life. The intellectual concepts, metaphysical speculations and artistic symbols and images which Yeats appropriated from Wilde changed the poet's perspective and informed the imaginative syste...