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... Yeats is in this very Irish . He famously wrote to Olivia Shakespear in 1927 that only two subjects could be of the least interest to a serious and studious mind , sex and the dead.3 Addressing such a remark to one's long - ago first ...
... Yeats is in this very Irish . He famously wrote to Olivia Shakespear in 1927 that only two subjects could be of the least interest to a serious and studious mind , sex and the dead.3 Addressing such a remark to one's long - ago first ...
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... Yeats as a maker of books and self - canoniser , though I think there are problems here too . " Seamus Deane has rather censoriously seen Yeats's preoccupation with death as a way of distinguishing himself from the common mob . Several ...
... Yeats as a maker of books and self - canoniser , though I think there are problems here too . " Seamus Deane has rather censoriously seen Yeats's preoccupation with death as a way of distinguishing himself from the common mob . Several ...
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... Yeats , for whom the dead oblig- ingly continued to come through at seances , including his father and his uncle George Pollexfen . In 1913 , he owed to a medium the welcome news that his girlfriend Mabel Dickinson was not - as she ...
... Yeats , for whom the dead oblig- ingly continued to come through at seances , including his father and his uncle George Pollexfen . In 1913 , he owed to a medium the welcome news that his girlfriend Mabel Dickinson was not - as she ...
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