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Ireland's 'two cultures' debate: Victorian science and the literary Revival.
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In her 1928 essay The Strange Necessity, Rebecca West describes the poet W.B. Yeats as a quintessentially self-made man, whose risible pursuit of a Celtic spirituality was largely the fault of his Anglo-Irish forerunners. The English in Ireland, having abandoned the domestic instincts of a middle-class 'unafraid to examine the nature of the universe', evolved into a weakened, disengaged aristocracy whose inadequacies with regard to scientific and social analysis left a void for the young poet to fill. Like Scarf ace Capone, removed from the secure religious traditions of an ...
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W.B. Yeats: A Life, vol. 1, The Apprentice Mage, 1865-1914.
; ...transforms the popular image of the young poet from a dreamy Wandering Aengus...images intact: He even ascribes Yeats's much-noted misty gaze to a...deepens our understanding of Yeats's feelings about his Anglo-Irish...achievement is the way he reveals Yeats to be a mighty mascot for ...
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The legacy of yeats in Contemporary Irish Poetry.(Critical Essay)
; ...contours of modern Irish poetry the work of Yeats is Everest. His poems and his other activities...the cold shadow or the blinding glare of Yeats's imperious presence, scaling instead the...Mahon in a verse-letter, The statuary that Yeats erected left his generation knackered...
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A life like a novel.(W. B. Yeats: a Life Volume II: The Arch-poet 1915-1939)(Book Review)
; R.F. FOSTER W. B. Yeats: a Life Volume II: The Arch-poet 1915-1939 Oxford University Press, 2003, $45.00 In THE 1880S, LILY YEATS RETRIEVED from the floor of the Yeats's Blenheim Road house crumpled drafts of poems her brother...
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BOOKS: THE SEXED-UP SENATOR Yeats was firing on all cylinders almost to the last. Mark Bostridge marvels at the culmination of a majestic biography; W B Yeats: A Life II: The Arch-Poet By R F Foster OXFORD pounds 30 pounds 26 (+ pounds 2.25 P&P PER ORDER) 0870 800 1122
; This second and final volume of R F Foster's biography of W B Yeats opens in 1915, in Yeats's 50th year, and at an important crossroads in the poet's life. Yeats had recently completed a memoir of his childhood in which he had concluded...
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The anatomy of Yeats's inventions [Corrected 03/04/08]
; BOOK REVIEW Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form By Helen Vendler Belknap...she planned to write her dissertation on Yeats's poetry; then on reflection decided that...who kept going until age 73 (she wrote on Yeats's plays instead). So it is fitting that...
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Books: The politics of a poet Conor Cruise O'Brien hails the first volume of what promises to be the definitive life of Yeats
; W. B. Yeats: A Life. Volume 1: The Apprentice Mage...when completed, be the definitive Life of Yeats. Even as it stands it is already a master...to be reverential. He carefully follows Yeats's own accounts of his life, accepting much...
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Auden's allusion to "In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz" in "In Memory of W.B. Yeats." (W.H. Auden)
; ...on some verbal parallels in the poetry of W.B. Yeats and W.H. Auden, Joost Daalder remarks that a...me as a very pointed and resonant allusion to Yeats's poetry in Auden's In Memory of W.B. Yeats. Auden's allusion is to Yeats's In Memory of...
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MARCH MADNESS; Yeats still rebuilding.(Sports)
; ...The world turned inside out for Matt Yeats this season. The Maine goaltender, like...of training camp under a new head coach. Yeats, who had been Walsh's mainstay, was determined...Walsh's death, everything began to unravel. Yeats' self-confidence was perhaps the most serious...
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'She set me writing my first play': Laura Armstrong and Yeats's early drama.(Critical essay)
; ...Laura Armstrong, the first woman to inspire Yeats to write plays and verse. Scholars tend...as 'a flirt and a tease'. (4) In fact, Yeats's brief friendship with Laura Armstrong...but their relationship also influenced Yeats as he began, soon after meeting her, to...
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Waxing lyrical Birmingham is leading the way in promoting young writers by having its very own Young Poet Laureate. As judges begin to pore over this year's entries, DIANE PARKES meets our first two winners.
; THE city's first Young Poet Laureate Helen Monks says the experience...me develop my writing." Helen was Young Poet Laureate from 2005-6, the first youngster...continue writing." Helen handed over her Young Poet Laureate to 17-year-old Jennifer Brough...
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