William Butler Yeats: Index of Quotations
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—“In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz” |
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| Sligo days: ‘I have walked on Sinbad’s yellow shore and never shall an-other’s hit my fancy.’ (Reveries over Childhood and Youth [1914], in Autobiographies, 1955, [q.p.]; see longer extract - infra.)
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See longer extracts and full-text versions in RICORSO Library - via Yeats index. |
The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats (1955) |
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Index & General |
Collections 1888-1913 |
Collections 1914-1928 |
Collections 1929-1932 |
Collections 1935-1939 |
Plays & Prose 1885-1925 |
[ See some shorter quotations, infra ... ]
See also full-text versions in RICORSO Library "Irish Classics > W. B. Yeats" ... |
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Writings on William Blake |
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| The Works of William Blake (1893) The Poetry of William Blake (1910) “Old Gaelic Love Songs” (1893) “Irish Nation Literature” (1895) “Celtic Element in Literature” (1898) “The Lit. Movement in Ireland” (1901) “Modern Irish Poetry” (1904) “Poetry and Tradition” (1907) “Poetry in Ireland” (1908) “The Tragic Theatre” (1910) |
“Letter to The Irish Worker” (1913) "If I Were Four and Twenty" (1919) Early Poems & Stories (1925) - Dedication Early Poems & Stories (1925) - Notes King of the Great Clock Tower (1935) Oxford Book of Modern Verse (1936) “General Intro. for My Work” (1935) “A Discussion of Style” (1936) “General Intro. to My Plays” (1937) |
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| His childhood The People The Peasant Irish Folklore Old wives’ tales |
Class & Caste Oral tradition Irish oratory The Celts Imagination & Literature |
Reason & Impulse Religion & Mythology Anglo-Irish Literature? Irish Movements The Abbey Theatre |
Letter to Fr. Matthew Russell in 1889 on planning an Irish fiction anthology - infra. |
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| Artist as Priest Mysticism & Magic Symbolism |
Supernaturalism Unity of Being Moods & Emotions |
Masks & Identity Irish Criticism Oedipus at the Abbey |
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| Dramatic Art Tragic or Creative Joy |
Literature & Sexuality Women & Dolls |
Idealism v. Realism Yeats’s Creed |
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| Ireland in general Ireland, UK & US Irish nationality National feeling Irish bitterness Irish national faults |
English nationality Anglo-Ireland Nobel winner(s) Irish places & legends Irish tradition The Irish language |
[Irish] Catholicism Religion & Education The Penal Laws Psychic Research Divorce Bill (1929) Irish Censorship |
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| Irish history Irish politics Irish names Irish writers Irish Nationalism Irish Nationalists Irish Republicans 1916 Rising |
The Great War Irish Loyalty Class in Ireland Modern Ireland War in Ireland Fascism in Europe Fascism in Ireland The Irish Future |
Northern Ireland National cultures National histories English Royals Civil Pension Literary Gunmen The Irish Coinage Letter of condolence |
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| Wm. Shakespeare Jonathan Swift |
George Berkeley Edmund Burke |
William Blake |
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| John Sherman (1891) |
The Countess Cathleen |
Land of Heart’s Desire |
| Kathleen Ni Houlihan | The King’s Threshold | Resurrection (1934) |
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‘[I am] A man of my time, through my poetical faculty living its history.’ (Later Essays, ed. William O’Donnell, p.198; quoted in Elizabeth Butler Cullingford, ‘Yeats and Gender’, in The Oxford Companion to W. B. Yeats, ed. Marjorie Howes & John Kelly, OUP 2006, p.169. |
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‘I feel more and more that we shall have a school of Irish poetry – founded on Irish myth and history – a neo-romantic movement.’ - ‘Any breath from Ireland blows pleasurably in this hateful London where you cannot go five paces without seeing some wretched object broken either by wealth or poverty.’ Letters to Katherine Tynan, 1887, in Allan Wade, ed., Letters, 1954, pp. 33 & 35.) |
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‘Politics growing heroic [...] A Fascist opposition is forming behind the scenes to be ready should some tragic situation develop. I find myself constantly urging the despotic rule of the educated classes as the only end to our troubles. (Let this sleep in your ear.)’ (WBY to Olivia Shakespeare, 13 July 1933; Wade, pp.811-12; quoted in Brenda Maddox, Yeats’s Ghosts [..&c], NY: HarperCollins 1999, p.271.) |
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For Yeats, the playwrights of Catholic Ireland were ‘dominated by their subject’ while those of Anglo-Irish background ‘stand above their subject and play with it.’ (The Letters of W. B. Yeats, ed. Wade, London: Hart-Davis 1954, p.464; cited in Thomas Kilroy, ‘A Generation of Playwrights’, in Irish University Review, Spring 1992, p.135.) |
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Introductory poems [‘Time drops in decay ...” [vi]; ‘The host is riding from Knocknarea ...’ (“The Hosting of the Sidhe”) [vii]; This Book [1]; A Teller of Tales [4]; Belief and Unbelief [8]; Mortal Help [12]; A Visionary [15]; Village Ghosts [23]; “Dust Hath Closed Helen’s Eye” [35]; A Knight of the Sheep [50]; An Enduring Heart [56]; The Sorcerers [61]; The Devil [69]; Happy and Unhappy Theologians [71]; The Last Gleeman [79]; Regina, Regina Pigmeorum, Veni [79]; “And Fair, Fierce Women” [97]; Enchanted Woods [101]; Miraculous Creatures [109]; Aristotle of the Books [112]; The Swine of the Gods [113]; A Voice [115]; Kidnappers [117]; The Untiring Ones [130]; Earth, Fire and Water [135]; The Old Town [137]; The Man and His Boots [141]; A Coward [143]; The Three O’Byrnes and the Evil Faeries [145]; Drumcliff and Rosses [148]; The Thick Skull of the Fortunate [160]; The Religion of the Sailor [163]; Concerning the Nearness Together of Heaven, Earth, and Purgatory [165]; The Eaters of Precious Stones [167]; Our Lady of the Hills [169]; The Golden Age [173]; A Remonstrance with Scotsmen for Having Soured the Disposition of Their Ghosts and Faeries [176]; War [183]; The Queen and The Fool [186]; The Friends of the People of Faery [195]; Dreams That Have No Moral [208]; By The Roadside [231]; “Into the Twilight” [poem, 235]. |
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