An important part of the national imaginary, Yeat's work has helped to invent the nation of
Ireland, while critiquing the modern state that emerged from it's revolutionary period. This …

This book argues that populism has been a shaping force in Irish literary culture. Populist
moments and movements have compelled authors to reject established forms and invent …

Irish women writers entered the British and international publishing scene in unprecedented
numbers in the period between 1878 and 1922. Literary history is only now beginning to …

I. ILLNESS two ways before literature-upward into ever growing subtlety until poetry was
written for only a small and learned audience or downward until all was" simplified and …

On 18 December 1896, men and women from Sligo town and the surrounding countryside
gathered at the village of Drumcliffe to hear the Gore-Booth sisters speak about suffrage. 1 …

A vivid description of the fierce and free Celtic spirit as it has been sustained through history,
and a vision for living that spirit in the present• Equates Celtic customs with Native American …

In addition to being a respected poet, dramatist, essayist, and statesman, William Butler
Yeats was a dedicated student of the occult and practicing magician for most of his adult life …

Variorum Plays as Time and the Witch Vivien, whic January 8, 1884, when Yeats was
eighteen. 1 The bas of" dreamland marble" is an odd one, because it co vagueness and …

Abstract The title of New Poems, published when Yeats was seventy-three, was no doubt
calculated to remind critics who might have been inclined to assume that he had already …

Because of the triumph of postmodern studies, explication of classic poems by great dead
white male English poets of preceding centuries has greatly declined in the last several …