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Patricia Louise Hughes's Blog – December 2014 Archive (3)
Mr William Butler and Mrs George Yeats
When Olivia Shakespear introduced her ex-lover, W.B. Yeats, to her niece-by-marriage, Georgie, in London in 1917 she knew he was looking for a young wife and hoped they would be compatible. From…
Added by Patricia Louise Hughes on December 31, 2014 at 4:07am — 5 Comments
The Pending Birth of Yeats' Illegitimate Son
On a Picture of a Black Centaur by Edmund Dulac
by W.B. Yeats
Your hooves have stamped at the black margins of the wood,
Even where horrible green parrots call and swing.
My works are all stamped down in the sultry mud.
I knew that horse-play, knew it for a murderous thing.
What wholesome sun has ripened is wholesome…
Added by Patricia Louise Hughes on December 18, 2014 at 10:30am — 1 Comment
Yeats Declares His Love
The year before his marriage Yeats had published ‘Easter 1916’, about the Dublin uprising and the relentless British…
Added by Patricia Louise Hughes on December 2, 2014 at 11:30am — 1 Comment
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