A sacerdotal politics: Yves Bonnefoy’s reforging of W. B. Yeats

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Notes

¹ Wills identifies Yeats’s own source material, whether given directly or by allusion in his poems, and shows how he has ‘reforged’ them into his own oeuvre.

² Yeats’ fascination with occult religion persisted through his life from college days onwards.

³ It was drawn from Schubert.

⁴ By way of aside Bonnefoy translated (‘reforged’) Shakespeare’s Hamlet in ‘five different translations … each using a different version of the dialectical process of negotiating between ideas from the source and target texts’ (11).