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Yeats,legato al preraffaellismo e al folklore irlandese,rivestì all’inizio i suoi versi di veli crepuscolari;poi gli scritti e le incisioni del poeta, pittore W.Blake,con le sue titaniche evanescenti visioni di un mondo di giganti,dettero alla sua poetica una sferzata di energia.
Maud Gonne MacBride (1866-1953), comédienne, militante nationaliste irlandaise, féministe. Mère de S. MacBride, co-fondateur d’Amnesty International. Amie du poète William Butler Yeats.
➡️The Gonne-Yeats letters.
➡️A.Jordan, The Yeats, Gonne, Macbride.
➡️O.Ross, Her secret rose.
On a dark, January day, think of the light of evening on the #WildAtlanticWay and join us for the Yeats International Summer School!
Philip Coleman, ed. of John Berryman's letters for Harvard UP will talk about Yeats, Berryman & “Feline Form”.
Info: https://t.co/1K9r7z0nbg
Annie Horniman was a tea heiress, major figure in UK and Irish theatre, champion of Shaw and Yeats, cycled over the Alps – twice – but my favourite fact is that she managed to get expelled from an occult order for *insubordination* (#OTD in 1903). #AYearofStrangeFlowers
THE SHADOWY WATERS, 1904. Folklorist & poet W. B. Yeats, wrote of an island of women who cast no shadows & manifest as woman-headed birds, discovered by a ghost ship of undead sailors near the world's end. Yeats read about vampires during his occult phase #FolkloreThursday
This #February, find a range of events at your NLI. From a @DublinCityofLit interactive talk for children, to a documentary about the wife of WB Yeats, and events to mark the Chinese Year of the Pig in association with @DCNYF, there is something for all: https://t.co/P2aggk1dop.
Our previous issue saw a fabulous array of reminiscences of Lord Dunsany — and also some contemporary assessments of his works — written by his Irish colleagues, including Yeats, Bowen, Gogarty, Tynan, A.E., and others. https://t.co/znhabrs3QF
Burn’s Irish art goes up for sale.. Works by Jack B Yeats, Roderic O'Conor, John Lavery, William Orpen, Walter Osborne, John Leech, Mary Swanzy, Rowan Gillespie and a host of others are for up auction on November 21. https://t.co/5oA24C5lPk
William Butler Yeats founded the "Rhymers' Club" poetry group with Ernest Rhys in 1890.
📷WB Yeats, 7 February 1933
It's #WorldPoetryDay with William Butler #Yeats, portrayed here by John Singer #Sargent in 1908.