Book review: Doody N. The influence of Oscar Wilde on W.B. Yeats : «an echo of someone else’s music». – London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. – VIII, 340 p.
Book review: Doody N. The influence of Oscar Wilde on W.B. Yeats : «an echo of someone else’s music». – London : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018. – VIII, 340 p.
The central idea of Noreen Doodyʼs book is that O. Wilde was a literary precursor of W.B. Yeats: the aesthetics and the imagination of the latter formed in close and constant intellectual contact with the former. N. Doody's method is a synthesis of biographical approach and comparative literary criticism with an additional focus on images and symbols: dance/dancer, mask and etc.
