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W.B. Yeats
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Avant-garde and Kitsch
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To quote Yeats: Nor is there singing school but studying Monuments of its own magnificence.†
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.†
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.†
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Definitions:

(1) (W.B. Yeats)
influential Irish poet and dramatist (1865-1939)
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Much more rarely, Yeats can refer to someone else with that name.