Copyright

Patrick Keane

Published On

2021-12-17

Page Range

pp. 137-150

Print Length

13 pages

10. The Poems

A Sampling

  • Patrick Keane (author)
Chapter of: Making the Void Fruitful: Yeats as Spiritual Seeker and Petrarchan Lover (pp. 137–150)

An examination of a representative selection of Maud-Gonne poems, from ‘The Song of Wandering Aengus,’ ‘The Cap and Bells,’ and ‘He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven,’ to ‘The Lover pleads with his Friend for Old Friends ’ and ‘He wishes his Beloved were Dead,’ on to ‘Friends,’ ‘To a Young Girl,’ and (especially) ‘A Prayer for my Daughter.’

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Patrick Keane

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