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.

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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.

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On a dark, January day, think of the light of evening on the 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

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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).

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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

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This find a range of events at your NLI. From a 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 , there is something for all: https://t.co/P2aggk1dop.

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Today marks the 80th anniversary of the death of Ireland’s national poet, WB celebrated around the world as an outstanding poet & writer; always inspired by his ‘spiritual home’ ‘Under bare Ben Bulben’s head In Drumcliffe churchyard Yeats is laid.’

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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

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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

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“I have spread my dreams under your feet.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
- W.B. born

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William Butler Yeats founded the "Rhymers' Club" poetry group with Ernest Rhys in 1890.
📷WB Yeats, 7 February 1933

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It's with William Butler portrayed here by John Singer in 1908.

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