Derek Nikitas, author and MFA faculty at Eastern Kentucy University, is apparently “working on a semi-historical horror/fantasy novel about W.B. Yeats, Aleister Crowley and H.P. Lovecraft.” [via, see]
You may be interested in this project to develop a new tarot deck, the Stolen Child Tarot by Monica Knighton. The name of the deck is inspired by a William Butler Yeats poem, The Stolen Child: “Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the [...]
Thursday, October 27, 2011
There are several mp3 files of William Butler Yeats reading his own work recorded in the 1930s over at the website of PennSound, a project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania. Here’s the earliest of the files, from 1931, of Yeats reading two stanzas from “Coole and Ballylee”:
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
William Blake and his Illustrations to The Divine Comedy in Ideas of Good and Evil by William Butler Yeats. “The errors in the handiwork of exalted spirits are as the more phantastical errors in their lives; as Coleridge’s opium cloud; as Villiers De L’Isle Adam’s candidature for the throne of Greece; as Blake’s anger against [...]
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
William Blake and his Illustrations to The Divine Comedy in Ideas of Good and Evil by William Butler Yeats. “Living in a time when technique and imagination are continually perfect and complete, because they no longer strive to bring fire from heaven, we forget how imperfect and incomplete they were in even the greatest masters” [...]
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011
William Blake and his Illustrations to The Divine Comedy in Ideas of Good and Evil by William Butler Yeats. “Ideas cannot be given but in their minutely appropriate words, nor can a design be made without its minutely appropriate execution.” [via]
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
William Blake and his Illustrations to The Divine Comedy in Ideas of Good and Evil by William Butler Yeats. “No man can improve an original invention; nor can an original invention exist without execution, organized, delineated and articulated either by God or man” [via]
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
William Blake and his Illustrations to The Divine Comedy in Ideas of Good and Evil by William Butler Yeats. “‘I am,’ wrote Blake, ‘like others, just equal in invention and execution.’” [via]
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
William Blake and his Illustrations to The Divine Comedy in Ideas of Good and Evil by William Butler Yeats. “He strove to embody more subtle raptures, more elaborate intuitions than any before him; his imagination and technique are more broken and strained under a great burden than the imagination and technique of any other master.” [...]
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
William Blake and his Illustrations to The Divine Comedy in Ideas of Good and Evil by William Butler Yeats. “The technique of Blake was imperfect, incomplete, as is the technique of well-nigh all artists who have striven to bring fires from remote summits; but where his imagination is perfect and complete, his technique has a [...]
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011
William Blake and his Illustrations to The Divine Comedy in Ideas of Good and Evil by William Butler Yeats. “All in this great series are in some measure powerful and moving, and not, as it is customary to say of the work of Blake, because a flaming imagination pierces through a cloudy and indecisive technique, [...]
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
William Blake and his Illustrations to The Divine Comedy in Ideas of Good and Evil by William Butler Yeats. “In the illustrations of Purgatory there is a serene beauty, and one finds his Dante and Virgil climbing among the rough rocks under a cloudy sun, and in their sleep upon the smooth steps towards the [...]
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011
William Blake and his Illustrations to The Divine Comedy in Ideas of Good and Evil by William Butler Yeats. “‘I know that the majority of Englishmen are bound by the indefinite … a line is a line in its minutest particulars, straight or crooked. It is itself not intermeasurable by anything else … but since [...]
William Blake and his Illustrations to The Divine Comedy in Ideas of Good and Evil by William Butler Yeats. “here and there among the pictures born of sensation and memory is the murmuring of a new ritual, the glimmering of new talismans and symbols” [via]
William Blake and his Illustrations to The Divine Comedy in Ideas of Good and Evil by William Butler Yeats. “when man’s desire to rest from spiritual labour, and his thirst to fill his art with mere sensation and memory, seem upon the point of triumph, some miracle transforms them to a new inspiration” [via]
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William Blake and his Illustrations to The Divine Comedy in Ideas of Good and Evil by William Butler Yeats. “but the immortal part makes all his labours vain, and turns his pyramids to ‘grains of sand,’ his ‘pillars’ to ‘dust on the fly’s wing,’ and makes of ‘his starry heavens a moth of gold and [...]
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William Blake and his Illustrations to The Divine Comedy in Ideas of Good and Evil by William Butler Yeats. “the merely mortal part of the mind, ‘the spectre,’ creates ‘pyramids of pride,’ and ‘pillars in the deepest hell to reach the heavenly arches,’ and seeks to discover wisdom in ‘the spaces between the stars,’ not [...]
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William Blake and his Illustrations to The Divine Comedy in Ideas of Good and Evil by William Butler Yeats. “These three primary commands, to seek a determinate outline, to avoid a generalized treatment, and to desire always abundance and exuberance, were insisted upon with vehement anger, and their opponents called again and again ‘demons’ and [...]
William Blake and his Illustrations to The Divine Comedy in Ideas of Good and Evil by William Butler Yeats. “There are many mediums in the means—none, oh, not a jot, not a shadow of a jot, in the end of great art. In a picture whose merit is to be excessively brilliant, it can’t be [...]
William Blake and his Illustrations to The Divine Comedy in Ideas of Good and Evil by William Butler Yeats. “Excess is the essential vivifying spirit, vital spark, embalming spice of the finest art.” [via]
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