English Literature / Unit 16 ENL 1507 short lesson, about 20 seconds
W. B. Yeats: Life and Phases
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The idea
William Butler Yeats, a Dublin Protestant, began with Irish myth and the Celtic Twilight, explored the occult, loved the nationalist Maud Gonne, and co-founded the Abbey Theatre. He built a symbolic system of phases and gyres in A Vision, became a senator, and won the Nobel Prize in nineteen twenty-three.
In practice
Myth, occult, nationalism, system.
Where people slip
His style changes across his career.
Your place on the trail
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