Bottomfish, et all re misogyny in the Bible --

I taught some excerpts from Milton's "Paradise Lost" a few weeks ago and was reminded that a lot of our "received wisdom" about Adam and Eve comes from Milton rather than Genesis. I think more received wisdom from from Augustine and other religious interpreters of the Bible.

I recommend going back to Genesis itself.

Of course, that does not solve the question of where Yeats got his own received wisdom. Nor does the Bible necessarily clear up what Yeats himself meant to be Adam's curse.