W. Blake & W.B. Yeats in The Tunnel of Time

Authors

  • Munira H Mutran University of São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v17i0.3536

Abstract

This article traces a comparative view of the sacred and symbolic dimension in two congenial poets: William Blake and William Butler Yeats. Blake is a precursor of Romanticism in English poetry and Yeats has called himself “the last of the Romantics” at the start of his career. As a profound admirer of Blake’s work, Yeats has dedicated years in the reading and interpretation of his Prophetic Books. The impact of such interest is one of the focus here, as well as their views on mimetic and symbolic art. Yeats shows us in his essays on Blake that he struggled to make a distinction between these two
forms of representing reality.


Keywords: Poetry; symbolism; representation in art; imagination.

Author Biography

  • Munira H Mutran, University of São Paulo

    Munira Hamud Mutran is Associate Professor of Literatures in English at the University of São Paulo. She specializes in Irish Literature and Comparative Studies, and she holds an Honorary Degree in Letters at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. She is currently involved in the project, “Irish Inflections of Henrik Ibsen’s Plays” (2015 – 2018), for CNPq. She is co-editor of “The Brazilian Journal of Irish
    Studies” (since 1996) and of “Lectures”, a series of books with lectures given at “W. B. Yeats Chair of Irish Studies” at USP. Besides articles and chapters in books on Irish drama and fiction, she has published two collections of Irish short stories translated into Portuguese, Joyce no Brasil (1997), Sean O’Faolain’s Letters to Brazil (2005 ), Album de Retratos (A Portrait Album, 2002) and A Batalha das Estéticas (Aesthetic Movements in Battle, 2015).

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Published

2015-11-17

Issue

Vol. 17 (2015): ABEI Journal 17

Section

Celebrating W.B. Yeats

How to Cite

Mutran, M. H. (2015). W. Blake & W.B. Yeats in The Tunnel of Time. ABEI Journal, 17, 31-35. https://doi.org/10.37389/abei.v17i0.3536