Word: sharpening
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...work them: they will not work at all for the majority who will find Yeats's synthetic occultism repellent. The book remains, nevertheless, a remarkable integration of Yeats's feel of himself with his knowledge of mankind. By its rules of thumb he was enabled to sharpen the edges of his knifelike insights into men's personalities, to face the conflicts of his own nature with increased resolve, and to go on writing, up to his death, poems that presented what both his art and his life were aimed to present...