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Per Amica Silentia Lunae

W. B. Yeats

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. . .Keats to have been born with that thirst for luxury common to many at the outsetting of the Romantic Movement, and not able, like wealthy Beckford, to slake it with beautiful and strange objects. It drove him to imaginary delights; ignorant, poor, and in poor health, and not perfectly well-bred, he knew himself driven from tangible luxury; meeting Shelley, he was resentful and suspicious because he, as Leigh Hunt recalls, “being a little too sensitive on the score of his origin, felt inclined to see in every man of birth his natural enemy.”

 

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Some thirty years ago I read a prose allegory by Simeon Solomon, long out of print and unprocurable, and remember or seem to remember a sentence, “a hollow image of[Pg 26] fulfilled desire.” All happy art seems to me that hollow image, but when its lineaments express also the poverty or the exasperation that set its maker to the work, we call it tragic art. Keats but gave us his drea. . . Read More

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- Michael - Oct 11, 2016

Per Amica Silentia Lunae is a poetic exposition of Yeat's visionary worldview. I enjoyed the opportunity to remember the power of his prose. And that visionary worldview is unlike anything we're taught in school. If, for example, you're looking to attract your daimon – an elevated spirit that attach

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