SOURCE: "'Heart Mysteries': The Later Love Lyrics of W. B. Yeats," in Contemporary Literature, Vol. 10, No. 2, pp.
In the following excerpt, Perloff provides explications of structure, semantics, and sound and uses biographical information about Yeats's feelings for Maud Gonne during the last two decades of his life to analyze lyrics of Yeats's second Maud Gonne cycle.
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