YEATS AND PESSOA
PARALLEL POETIC STYLES
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Chairman
Professor Colin Davis, Royal Holloway, University of London
Professor Malcolm Cook, University of Exeter (French)
Professor Robin Fiddian, Wadham College, Oxford (Spanish)
Professor Paul Garner, University of Leeds (Spanish)
Professor Marian Hobson Jeanneret,
Queen Mary University of London (French)
Professor Catriona Kelly, New College, Oxford (Russian)
Professor Martin McLaughlin, Magdalen College, Oxford (Italian)
Professor Martin Maiden, Trinity College, Oxford (Linguistics)
Professor Peter Matthews, St Johns College, Cambridge (Linguistics)
Dr Stephen Parkinson, Linacre College, Oxford (Portuguese)
Professor Ritchie Robertson, St Johns College, Oxford (German)
Professor Lesley Sharpe, University of Exeter (German)
Professor David Shepherd, University of Sheffield (Russian)
Professor Michael Sheringham, All Souls College, Oxford (French)
Professor Alison Sinclair, Clare College, Cambridge (Spanish)
Professor David Treece, Kings College London (Portuguese)
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STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
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Professor Duncan Large, University of Swansea
Dr Elinor Shaffer, School of Advanced Study, London
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Yeats and Pessoa: Parallel Poetic Styles, by Patricia Silva McNeill
Yeats and Pessoa
Parallel Poetic Styles
PATRICIA SILVA MCNEILL
First published 2010
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FOR MY PARENTS, LEONEL AND MIZ AND FOR JIM
I wish to thank the following people and institutions for helping to make this book possible:
Helder Macedo for enthusiastically supporting my proposal to do a comparative study of Yeats and Pessoa and for his inspirational contribution in the early but crucial stages of my doctorate;
Warwick Gould, Director of the Institute of English Studies of the University of London School of Advanced Studies, and Juliet Perkins, my subsequent supervisor at Kings College London, for jointly overseeing my doctoral project throughout;
The Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) for granting financial support for the doctoral research project from which this book stems;
The staffs of the Irish and the Portuguese National Libraries for affording me access to manuscripts in the Yeats and Pessoa archives and of the Casa-Museu Fernando Pessoa for allowing me access to the works in Pessoas personal library;
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