Chronology Entry
Year
1914
Text
Yeats, W.B. Art and ideas. In : New weekly ; 20 June, 27 June (1914).
http://books.google.ch/books?hl=de&id=m4QabtHKSCsC&q=chinese#v=snippet&q=
chinese&f=false.
"Our appreciations of the older schools are changing too, becoming simpler, and when we take pleasure in some Chinese painting of an old man, meditating upon a mountain path, we share his meditation, without forgetting the beautiful intricate pattern of the lines like those we have seen under our eyelids as we fell asleep ; nor do the Bridge and Bridegroom of Rajput painting, sleeping upon a house-top, or wakening when out of the still water the swans fly upward at the dawn, seem the less well painted because they remind us of many poems."
http://books.google.ch/books?hl=de&id=m4QabtHKSCsC&q=chinese#v=snippet&q=
chinese&f=false.
"Our appreciations of the older schools are changing too, becoming simpler, and when we take pleasure in some Chinese painting of an old man, meditating upon a mountain path, we share his meditation, without forgetting the beautiful intricate pattern of the lines like those we have seen under our eyelids as we fell asleep ; nor do the Bridge and Bridegroom of Rajput painting, sleeping upon a house-top, or wakening when out of the still water the swans fly upward at the dawn, seem the less well painted because they remind us of many poems."
Mentioned People (1)
Yeats, William Butler
(Dublin 1865-1939 Hotel Ideal Séjour, Menton) : Dichter, Dramatiker, Schriftsteller, Nobelpreisträger
Subjects
Literature : Occident : Ireland