Stan Man Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 Hi everyone! I am deep into a research project concerning Irish writers and how the theme of "purgatory" connects them. I have been trying to find evidence of this theme in Yeats's poetry without reading every single poem he's ever written, and online searches aren't helping because he wrote a play called Purgatory, and that is what always comes up. If anyone has knowledge on Yeats poems, or knows how to better format a Google search, that help would be much appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sologdin Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 you need a yeats concordance, such as: https://books.google.com/books?id=Z6xbAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=purgatory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Writhen Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 I didn't know there was a google books. Guess I haven't been Paying Attention © Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Killer Snark Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 There aren't any Yeats poems on the explicit theme of purgatory, but there are a bunch on the theme of reclamation of an assumed early golden age especially in The Tower, where the desire for transition is dealt with in quasi-spiritual terms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sologdin Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 poetry without reading every single poem he's ever written it occurs to me that this is probably the wrong answer. best go get the collected poetry and polish it off. here it be in public domain: https://archive.org/details/collectedworksw00wadegoog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Arryn Posted September 16, 2015 Share Posted September 16, 2015 poetry without reading every single poem he's ever written it occurs to me that this is probably the wrong answer. best go get the collected poetry and polish it off. here it be in public domain: https://archive.org/details/collectedworksw00wadegoog You can be mean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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