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The aim of this study is to help the student at school and university to approach a difficult poet without being intimidated by him, and to write critically about his poetry without simply reproducing the ideas of established critics. I hope that in the process it will also give some sense of the vitality, urgency and contemporaneity of Yeats’s work, and offer some new readings of the poetry.
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Smith, S. (1990). Reading Yeats. In: W. B. Yeats: A Critical Introduction. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20918-7_1
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