I that have not your faith, how shall I know
That in the blinding light beyond the grave
We’ll find so good a thing as that we have lost?

W.B. Yeats

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Topic

The afterlife Death Life

Author

W.B. Yeats

Source

King and No King

Medium

Poem

Language

English

Time

1910 1910s 20th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

Ireland Europe

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Original Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "King and No King." The Green Helmet and Other Poems. The Cuala Press, 1910.

Current Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "King and No King." Yeats's Poetry, Drama and Prose. W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.

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Yeats, William Butler. "The Second Coming." The Dial, Nov. 1920.

Current Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "The Second Coming." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Freud, Sigmund. Einführung in die Psychoanalyse [Introduction to Psychoanalysis]. 1915-1917, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, lecture 1. Lecture series.

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Freud, Sigmund. Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis. W. W. Norton & Company, 1977, lecture 1.

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Blake, William. "A Song of Liberty." The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, edited by David V. Erdman. University of California Press, 2008.