Art as Talisman in Yeats
The comparison between symbolic art and a talisman in Yeats’s introduction to A Book of Images.
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Symbol and Allegory in Yeats
Yeats’s distinction between images that continue to suggest meaning and images that can be translated into a fixed explanation.
W. B. Yeats’s introduction to W. T. Horton, A Book of Images (1898)
The Inferno of the Normal
Spare’s recurring image of ordinary existence shaped by conventional belief, limited knowledge and inner conflict.
Austin Osman Spare’s allegorical drawings and verse in Earth Inferno (1905)
The Moon and the Gaze in Salomé
Conflicting visions of the moon frame a tragedy in which looking becomes desire, warning and, finally, exposure.
Literary symbolism in Oscar Wilde’s Salomé, English edition of 1907
Waking Dreams and Horton’s Art
Yeats’s account of Horton turning reported waking visions into formal black-and-white drawings.
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