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It is unknown when exactly Yeats composed "The Circus Animals' Desertion", but composition likely occurred between November 1937 and September 1938.[1]
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References edit
- ^ Jeffares 1968, p. 508.
Bibliography edit
- Albright, Daniel (1972). The Myth Against Myth: A Study of Yeats's Imagination in Old Age. London, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-212188-X.
- Jeffares, A. Norman (1968). A Commentary on the Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-804-70661-2.
- Koenigsberger, Kurt (2007). The Novel and the Menagerie: Totality, Englishness, and Empire. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8142-1057-4.
- O'Neill, Michael (1997). Romanticism and the Self-Conscious Poem. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-812285-3.
- Yeats, W. B. (1994). Watts, Cedric (ed.). The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Hertfordshire, UK: Wordsworth Poetry Library. ISBN 978-1-85326-454-2.