Adam's Curse: Reflections on Religion and Literature

by Denis Donoghue

Book Overview

W. B. Yeats's poem "Adam's Curse" provides Donoghue with motif and incentive. In Genesis God says to Adam: "Because thou hast harkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life." Yeats put it this way: "It is certain there is no fine thing / Since Adam's curse but needs much labouring."...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268020094
• ISBN13: 9780268020095
• Release Date: April 2001
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.8"