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‘He was one of those few whose history is the history of their own time, who are part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them.’ (T. S. Eliot, Lecture on Yeats in the Abbey Theatre [1939], quoted in Terence Brown, The Life of W. B. Yeats, 2001, p.378; cited in Brendan T. Mitchell, PG Dip., UU 2009.)

‘Yeats was always passionately beating on the wall of the physical world in order to provoke an answer from the other side.’ (Seamus Heaney, ‘Joy or Night: Last Things in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats and Philip Larkin’, in Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001, London: Faber & Faber, p.319; quoted in Carl Campbell, PG Dip., UU 2009.)

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