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🪡b. #otd 1866 Susan "Lily" Yeats, embroiderer, co-founded Ireland's 20c craft industry. Lived in #BedfordPk's Woodstock Rd + Blenheim Rd, studied at Chiswick School of Art, worked for May Morris at Kelmscott Hse, four of the ten locations on our📱#Yeats trail. Go-live Tue 6 Sep! https://t.co/itohcvMn5X
#otd 1889, 23-yr-old Dublin-born #BedfordPk poet #Yeats, lectures at Southwark Irish Literary Society on one of his heroes, Dublin-born poet James Clarence Mangan (1803-1849) who first brought the "ghazal" to poetry in English with his translations of Hafiz
"The jester walked in the garden:
The garden had fallen still;
He bade his soul rise upward...
But the young queen would not listen
(The Cap and Bells, pub. #otd 1894)
Explore 1st-garden-suburb #BedfordPk where "young jester" #WBY discovered (+took for theme) unrequited love💔 https://t.co/Kf3HSWQTWQ
Add your pledge, large or small, to the £1,600 pledged by Sligo poet @JoanMcBreen who (with 300 others) takes us to £114K (just £20K to target) to see @Conradshawcross's swirling centrifugal vision of Yeats's genius created between that "roadway" and those famous "pavements grey" https://t.co/KaEfN6d9R3
Celebrate WB #Yeats's🎈156th birthday today🎂by pledging (£10/£20/£+?) @ https://t.co/MGgxDf6PoB. Just 16% to🎯and we'll see @Conradshawcross's gyring gold+silver Yeatsian vision #enwroughtlight unveiled near #WBY's London boyhood home🏡as his🎈157th birthday🎁on 13th Jun 2022🗓! https://t.co/Thg3Ex2Y2b
Favourite retreat at end of our many #Yeats #BedfordPk "Land of Heart's Desire" walks, @chiswicktabard, with its Arts-&-Crafts Wm De Morgan tiles, and inn-sign originally painted by #Yeats's neighbour T. Matthews Rooke whose wife Leonora taught the Yeats siblings country dancing! https://t.co/wK7V1iGSxC
Mega-thnx2 @IrishLitSoc for chance to write re @YeatsBedfordPark project's implications for Londoners, London-Irish-ers like #Yeats, and for our entwined British-Irish cultural strands: + to mention the Artwork's crowdfund page - just 10 days to deadline! https://t.co/NjZAFMClf7 https://t.co/E3mDCWVhPM
#BedfordPark residents: Irish historian Goddard Orpen (painting by Sean O'Suilleabhain) + his Kansas-born novelist wife Adela lived round the corner from the Yeatses' Woodstock Rd home and next door to historian Frederick York Powell who introduced #Yeats to Mallarmé's poetry
#Yeats's first staged play "Land of Heart's Desire" ends its run #otd 1894: companion piece by Irish poet + #BedfordPk neighbour, John Todhunter (No.3 The Orchard); both produced by Todhunter's neighbour Florence Farr + funded by Annie Horniman who later helped fund @AbbeyTheatre
May Morris (seated) b. #otd 1862. Her embroiderers included Florence Farr (with psaltery) who funded #WBY's first staged play + Lily Yeats, both part of #bedfordpark @artsandcrafts ambience that inspired his dream of heavens' embroidered cloths - listen at https://t.co/VqqvXy6HrW