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A Survey of African Poetry in the London Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, the Times Literary Supplement 1865-1985

Surveying Yeats from China to Peru (1966-02-10)

Type

Critical Article

Published

1966-02-10
The Times Literary Supplement

Authors (1)

Fraser, George Sutherland 'G. S.'

Citation

"Surveying Yeats from China to Peru", The Times Literary Supplement, 10 Feb 1966, p. 99 The Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive,, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/EX1200340688/GDCS?u=linc74325&sid=GDCS&xid=8a8a1352. Accessed 23 Jan 2020

Excerpt

[Excerpt]: "In spite of the Yeats centenary year, there is still plenty to be said about the poet--as these new volumes demonstrate. Some of the Yeats miscellanies reviewed last year in these columns bore the mark of being compiled for an occasion. A first-rate critical or scholarly article, on any great writer, tends to ripen in the critic's or scholar's mind over the years...The Ibadan volume contains a very fine commemorative poem by one of the most brilliant of West African poets now writing in English, Mr. Christopher Okigbo..."

Related People (17)

  • Okigbo, Christopher | Poet
  • Yeats, William Butler 'W. B.' | Mentioned Poet
  • Blake, William | Mentioned Poet
  • Palmer, Samuel | Mentioned Poet
  • Calvert, Edward | Mentioned Poet
  • Telfer, Giles | Academic
  • Faulkner, Peter | Academic
  • Maxwell, D. E. S. | Editor
  • Bushrui, S. B. | Editor
  • Empson, William | Academic
  • Fletcher, Ian | Writer
  • Jong Gil, Kim | Academic
  • Tomlin, Eric Walter Frederick 'E. W. F.' | Academic
  • Tomlinson, Charles | Academic
  • Fraser, George Sutherland 'G. S.' | Critic
  • Fraser, George Sutherland 'G. S.' | Article Author
  • Stevenson, Robert Louis | Academic

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Repositories (1)

  • The Times Literary Supplement