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W.B. Yeats
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  • "He began with William Butler Yeats's "The Second Coming.†   (source)
  • William Yeats, "The Choice".†   (source)
  • I could see him vividly, half-drunk on words and full of contempt and exaltation, pacing before the blackboard chalked with quotations from Joyce and Yeats and Sean O'Casey; thin, nervous, neat, pacing as though he walked a high wire of meaning upon which no one of us would ever dare venture.†   (source)
  • Then I came across a battered copy of Yeats.†   (source)
  • William Butler Yeats, "Easter, 1916".†   (source)
  • —from THE ROSE OF BATTLE, W. B. Yeats Nothing is easier than self-deceit.†   (source)
  • And my mother, the lover of Tennyson and early Yeats, began to realize that she had caught onto a different breed of dog.†   (source)
  • Maybe I could pull some Yeats out or something.†   (source)
  • When the poet W.B. Yeats stood on this platform more than seventy years ago, Ireland was emerging from the throes of a traumatic civil war that had followed fast on the heels of a war of independence fought against the British.†   (source)
  • His face was such a long upper-lipped Irish prototype that it verged on a joke, and he exuded sadness—something intangibly rumpled, exhausted and resigned that caused me to reflect with a twinge of pain on these lonesome office drinking bouts, the twilight sessions with Yeats and Hopkins, the bleak subway commute to Ozone Park.†   (source)
  • At length too, at Wisconsin, I learned the word for the nature of what I had come upon in reading Yeats.†   (source)
  • Many think Yeats greatest poetry was written when he was in his sixties.
  • Anyway," she said, "the only real geniuses are artists: Yeats, Picasso, Garcia Marquez: geniuses.†   (source)
  • Audenhad the great good fortune that it happened to be true; Yeats died on January 31,1939.†   (source)
  • "Yeats's lamentation had lost none of its power since its publication in 1920.†   (source)
  • Yeats barely alluded to the civil war or the war of independence in his Nobel speech.†   (source)
  • "The Rose of Battle," by Mr. William Butler Yeats.†   (source)
  • "I thought perhaps you might recite Mr. Yeats's poem in my stead."†   (source)
  • When it was time to introduce Mortenson, Krakauer took issue with one of Yeats's observations.†   (source)
  • Yeats, however, was by no means all flourish.†   (source)
  • "You know that part of Yeats's The Second Coming' where it's, like, The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity'?"†   (source)
  • Stirring all this, I seasoned the mixture with a dash of Yeats's brilliant cynicism and a pinch of Pound's obscure, scholastic arrogance.†   (source)
  • That mood in the poem is made colder and more desolate by Yeats's death, but also by our expectations of what we might call "the season of the elegy.†   (source)
  • It's Yeats.†   (source)
  • W. H. Auden, in his great elegy "In Memory of W. B. Yeats" (1940), emphasizes the coldness of the day Yeats died.†   (source)
  • W. H. Auden, in his great elegy "In Memory of W. B. Yeats" (1940), emphasizes the coldness of the day Yeats died.†   (source)
  • " 'Upon the wharves of sorrow,' " I say, repeating a line of the Yeats poem I found in Wilhelmina's book.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, until the British government caved in to the strong-arm tactics of the Ulster loyalist workers after the Sunningdale Conference in 1974, a well-disposed mind could still hope to make sense of the circumstances, to balance what was promising with what was destructive and do what W.B. Yeats had tried to do half a century before, namely, "to hold in a single thought reality and justice."†   (source)
  • Instead, I ask you to do what Yeats asked his audience to do and think of the achievement of Irish poets and dramatists and novelists over the past forty years, among whom I am proud to count great friends.†   (source)
  • And it is by such means that Yeats's work does what the necessary poetry always does, which is to touch the base of our sympathetic nature while taking in at the same time the unsympathetic nature of the world to which that nature is constantly exposed.†   (source)
  • And I find it, for example, in the repetition of that refrain of Yeats's, "Come build in the empty house of the stare," with its tone of supplication, its pivots of strength in the words "build" and "house" and its acknowledgement of dissolution in the word "empty".†   (source)
  • The struggle that ensued had been brief enough; it was over by May, 1923, some seven months before Yeats sailed to Stockholm, but it was bloody, savage and intimate, and for generations to come it would dictate the terms of politics within the twenty-six independent counties of Ireland, that part of the island known first of all as the Irish Free State and then subsequently as the Republic of Ireland.†   (source)
  • He'd put himself through the University of Wisconsin, he tells her:"And I happened to discover Yeats, reading through some of the stacks in the library.†   (source)
  • …he had worked for years on such McGraw-Hill publications as Foam Rubber Monthly, World of Prosthetics, Pesticide News and American Strip Miner until, at fifty-five or so, he had been pastured out to the gentler, less hectically industrial surroundings of the trade-book branch, where he marked time in his office sucking on a pipe, reading Yeats and Gerard Manley Hopkins, skimming my reports with a tolerant glance and, I think, avidly contemplating early retirement to Ozone Park.†   (source)
  • To quote Yeats: Nor is there singing school but studying Monuments of its own magnificence.†   (source)
  • This one's as good as any," said Van Yeats.†   (source)
  • "Don't let 'em climb your frame, son," said Van Yeats, turning his quiet pleasant face on Eugene.†   (source)
  • The next instant he was staring into the friendly grinning faces of Julius Arthur and Van Yeats.†   (source)
  • Without turning, stolid Van Yeats threw up his hand impatiently and greeted the unseen with a cheer.†   (source)
  • The lines quoted from Yeats referred to Byzantium, which is very close to Alexandria; and in a sense this imitation of imitating is a superior sort of Alexandrianism.†   (source)
  • The attention of poets like Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Valéry, Éluard, Pound, Hart Crane, Stevens, even Rilke and Yeats, appears to be centered on the effort to create poetry and on the "moments" themselves of poetic conversion, rather than on experience to be converted into poetry.†   (source)
  • Van Yeats propped him carefully against the wall; Julius Arthur ran swiftly into Church Street, and drew up in a moment at the curb.†   (source)
  • Across the street again, before the windows of the Van W. Yeats Shoe Company, the Reverend J. Brooks Gall, Amherst ('61), and as loyal a Deke as ever breathed, but looking only sixty of his seventy-three years, paused in his brisk walk, and engaged in sprightly monologue, three of his fellow Boy Scouts—the Messrs.†   (source)
  • "I want to see this Yeats thing, 'Land of Heart's Desire.'†   (source)
  • He read enormously every night—Shaw, Chesterton, Barrie, Pinero, Yeats, Synge, Ernest Dowson, Arthur Symons, Keats, Sudermann, Robert Hugh Benson, the Savoy Operas—just a heterogeneous mixture, for he suddenly discovered that he had read nothing for years.†   (source)
  • But she dropped it when she sat on the couch, her chin in her hands, a volume of Yeats on her knees, and read aloud.†   (source)
  • "I know you didn't care so much for Yeats when I read him aloud to you, but you just see if you don't adore him on the stage."†   (source)
  • The advertisement in the Minneapolis paper leaped from the page to her eyes: The Cosmos School of Music, Oratory, and Dramatic Art announces a program of four one-act plays by Schnitzler, Shaw, Yeats, and Lord Dunsany.†   (source)
  • A thing of beauty, don't you know, Yeats says, or I mean, Keats says.†   (source)
  • Yeats admired his line: As in wild earth a Grecian vase.†   (source)
  • Couldn't you do the Yeats touch?†   (source)
  • Nor in this by W. B. Yeats: "The character who delights us may commit murder like Macbeth …. and yet we will rejoice in every happiness that comes to him."†   (source)
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