Yeats's Use of Axël

Authors

Marilyn Gaddis Rose, State University of New York at Binghamton

Abstract

In lieu of an abstract, the first paragraph of the essay follows:

Yeats's well-known enthusiasm for Villiers de l'Isle-Adam's Axël (1872-94) was in the long run only that.¹ The Symbolist play was not so much an influence as an example, one which reenforced some of his techniques and served as a point of departure for some of his speculations. He found it truly congenial only when he was an impressionable young man living amidst Pre-Raphaelites and Art nouveau innovators and hearing from his contemporaries reports of the work of the French Decadents.

Recommended Citation

Rose, Marilyn Gaddis (1970) "Yeats's Use of Axël," Comparative Drama: Vol. 4: Iss. 4, Article 3.
Available at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/compdr/vol4/iss4/3