Abstract

Crossway (1889), the first collection of Yeats’s poems, is based on Romantic poetics, in particular that of Blake and Shelley, which reflects his sympathy and reaction to such poets. His early poetry, a little distanced from Nature, is an art for art work, a result of the young Yeats’s pure and unique poetic sensibility. By making comparisons between Yeats, Wordsworth, Keats, the paper is to show the rare sensibility of Yeats, as well as the characteristics in Wordsworth and Keats that is slighted by scholars, who stress nature-man harmony in the poets.

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