How To Use Yeats In A Sentence

  • W.B. Yeats connection with the house is tenuous indeed and hangs by the slender thread of his infatuation with Con and Eva.
  • He shares with Paul, and other heroes out of Irish legend who appear in Yeats's plays, the doom that must attend an unconforming spirit.
  • From his makeshift grave in France and the disarrangement of his bones, Yeats arrived in precisely the setting he had always intended, a setting he had already dramatized as his final resting-place.
  • Maud Gonne was the muse of W.B. Yeats, the Irish poet.
  • When in 1929 Sean O'Casey submitted his newest play, The Silver Tassie, at his usual stomping ground, the Abbey Theatre, co-founder W. B. Yeats looked it over and said a resounding no. David Finkle: First Nighter: Sean O'Casey's Silver Tassie a Challenging Lincoln Center Festival Puzzle
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  • When it opened in 1904 the theatre's foyer was hung with portraits by John Butler Yeats and since that time the collection has grown to over sixty works by several renowned artists.
  • The word "ancient," for instance, suggesting a certain millennial endurance, is repeatedly applied to Yeats's habits, opinions, and friendships, often when they are no more than fifteen or twenty years old—as though Yeats were an epoch in himself and made the terminology exact in the grandeur of proportion.
  • He was self-educated and co-founded the Yeats summer school, though he had no interest that I know of in Yeats.
  • Yeats painted the little scene across both front and back of a paper envelope which was then stamped and franked when he posted it to John Masefield in 1905.
  • The family was forced to move, and Yeats sent Lady Gregory a few choice words about his idolized beloved.
  • From now on, she told Yeats, romantic passion would be taking second place to political commitment.
  • The mansion features 18th-century plasterwork by Michael Stapleton, spectacular neoclassical columns and a gilded frieze contributed, in the 1890s, by the architect Alfred Darbyshire and a 1991 stained-glass window by Michael Judd with images of Swift, Wilde, Joyce, Yeats and other indispensable figures. Celebrating the Mordant, Witty and Darkly Romantic
  • Even the grimy black pine has been painted over with white gloss and the walls are covered in teeny Yeats prints.
  • That something emerges in a totally unsystematic, indeed offhand way, as in a review of a book on Yeats's poetry.
  • This Afro-Caribbean poem for a Euromodernist traverses cultural, racial, and gender boundaries via intersections of place names - Sligo, Sligoville; mythical heroes - Ireland's Cuchulain, Jamaica's ex-slave rebels; and premodern magic - Yeats's mysticism, Jamaica's skin-shedding witches and neck-chained, calf-like ghosts.
  • Twenty years ago when I was lecturing in America and I read a number of my poems to some audience in one of the eastern states, a woman asked from the end of the hall—I found afterwards that she was a professional elocutionist—‘Why do you read your poetry in that manner, Mr Yeats?’ Later Articles and Reviews
  • A jug from the seventeenth century, some medieval chasuble, even the embossing on a volume of Yeats's early poems all have this quality to varying degrees.
  • This book, a reprint of a collection first published in 1960, is intended to shed some light on this neglected phase of Yeats's life.
  • But the speech was most notable for the force with which Yeats pleaded that the Free State should not become a theocracy.
  • Cummings even had to ask the identity of the Irish member of the quadrumvirate, assuming at first it was Yeats.
  • Yet, to paraphrase coarsely Márquez's dictum given by him both as a writer and a fighter for justice, the writer must take the right to explore, warts and all, both the enemy and the beloved comrade in arms, since only a try for the truth makes sense of being, only a try for the truth edges towards justice just ahead of Yeats's beast slouching to be born. Nadine Gordimer - Nobel Lecture
  • Remember how Yeats represents history as rape in "Leda and the Swan.
  • And the soul of Yeats, long imprisoned in that golden effigy, was delivered as well, and he and Junius together passed as a breeze into that undiscovered country, from whence the voice of a woman sang, where there grow grapes and nectarines of metaphysical proportions, and where the tolling of the iron bells is only a distant, silvery echo. from → Stories The Soul of Yeats « Unknowing
  • Title: The title combines the Rosicrucian elements of Rose and Cross appropriate to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, an esoteric society that Yeats had joined in March of 1890 and that he induced Gonne to join in the autumn of 1891. Under The Moon
  • He is not only a great Irish poet since W. B. Yeats, but also an outstanding critic and translator.
  • Sadly, she rejected Yeats, telling him, You make beautiful poetry out of what you call your unhappiness, and you are happy in that. Archive 2009-06-01
  • It is as if Yeats, in the manner of the prophetic romantic artist, perceives the historical importance of that year as it happens.
  • He is now in his 80s and, following a number of health scares and other late-life catastrophes, finds himself in melancholic mood, planning a capacious, personal and baroquely styled critical study of some of his own abiding influences: Shakespeare, Yeats, Whitman, Emerson and Hart Crane among them. The Anatomy of Influence by Harold Bloom – review
  • Yeats once said that he wanted the natural words in the natural order, but he had a very highly cultured sense of what is natural, and his poetry is full of verbal archaism.
  • There is, as Yeats reminded us, a certain perversity here: People who actually know something are more likely to be fairly tentative and circumspect, while people ill-informed enough to think everything is quite simple will be confident they know all they need to. Perils of pop philosophy
  • But just as W.B. Yeats had trouble separating the dancer from the dance, so too is it impossible to separate the more graceful moments from the ugly, at times horrifying, context in which they must perforce arise.
  • She asked Lily Yeats in London to source William Morris wallpapers and cretonnes for the bedrooms of the small daughters of Lord and Lady Stonehaven.
  • Leah Hager Cohen on The Writer's Brush: Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture by Artists by Donald Friedman: When we think of such heavyweights as Goethe, Dostoyevsky, Faulkner, Yeats and Proust — all represented in these pages — we may think of them with reverence; certainly we view their works as being abidingly and immutably rooted in language, founded on words. An Amazon.com Books Blog featuring news, reviews, interviews and guest author blogs.
  • Yeats' plays are great poetry but they are not good theatre .
  • One thinks of Yeats's poem on another delinquent genius, Catullus.
  • The discovery that his daimon was female not only enlarged Yeats's understanding of temporal and spiritual reality but also radically transformed his interpretation of the aesthetic process.
  • The Hunt Museum collection has been acknowledged as one of the most important private collections in the State, and includes works by Renoir, Picasso and Yeats.
  • But within a short time he had tired of all this wholeness and flowing, and suspected Tagore of being just another “theosophist,” and was sitting up late with Yeats to help revise “The Two Kings” line by line. A Revolutionary Simpleton
  • Irish poet William Butler Yeats , 1865 - 1939 , was one of the greatest poets of English Modernism.
  • In 1889 Yeats met his great love, Maud Gonne (1866-1953), an actress and Irish revolutionary who became a major landmark in his life and imagination.
  • Other people don’t clip details out of their perceptions, do allow their minds to wander as they read, prefer reading logically dense material to “auding” it—and are moved by Yeats. The Muse in the Machine
  • He deeply respects Larkin's inconsolability in the face of the surest fact of all, but responds more vividly, in the end, to Yeats's visionary transformations.
  • Byzantium stands as an important symbol in the poems of Yeats.
  • If he wishes to show that "No Second Troy" is a better poem than "Upon a House Shaken by the Land Agitation," I am not persuaded by his telling me that the latter poem is "an incantation against elementary democratic reforms" and that the former poem enacts Yeats's "hard-wrung triumph, over selfpity. Archaeology
  • Directed by Michael Colgan with scrupulous faithfulness to Beckett's text, he shows us a self-obsessed artist who, having chosen between in Yeats's phrase "perfection of the life, or of the work," has lived to regret his decision to opt for the solitary pursuit of his elusive muse. The End Of the Line
  • Then – decisively – WB Yeats met Tagore, read his poems and became his passionate advocate while pencilling in suggestions for improvements. Rabindranath Tagore was a global phenomenon, so why is he so neglected? | Ian Jack
  • Later in this same passage Yeats resumes his argument for the Rose as an Irish symbol.
  • From now on, she told Yeats,(Sentence dictionary) romantic passion would be taking second place to political commitment.
  • Joseph Holloway 1861-1944, the tireless Dublin playgoer, noted in his journal that Yeats had made ‘a fool of himself in “going” for an article that appeared in this morning’s Independent. Later Articles and Reviews
  • As MacNeice was to observe in 1941, ‘A Prayer for my Daughter’ articulates Yeats's nostalgia for a more ceremonious and structured past.
  • The volume will help Yeats scholars to get a more rounded view of his literary output by showing how important was his work as a dramatist.
  • Irish poet William Butler Yeats , 1865 - 1939 , was one of the greatest poets of English Modernism.
  • Yeats refers to the concepts, in his treatises, of earthly and celestial hierarchies and of a ‘Mystical Theology’, through which knowledge of God and the progressive deification of man may be attained by a process of Neoplatonic abstraction. Later Articles and Reviews
  • William Butler Yeats ranks among the most widely admired and intensively studied writers of the twentieth century.
  • In some den of an apartment I will no doubt find the cockroach of enlightenment, a supralapsarian dispensationalist with whom I will share a love of Yeats and Brahms, and we will debate in sonorous and unending Spanish sentences of desultory, copious punctuation. Changes and Vicissitudes of the Unexamined Life « Unknowing
  • I'm almost positive the title was cribbed from Yeats.
  • Clinton-Baddeley read ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ as emended and with interpretive notes by Yeats: Later Articles and Reviews
  • In the first play of the Cuchulain cycle - On Baile's Strand - Yeats applies himself epically to the great characters and sagas of Irish mythology.
  • Yeats is prepared to try out the latest poetic fashions - Pre-Raphaelite languor with its confiscation of medieval surfaces, desacralised and airbrushed with momentary desire.
  • This former town librarian was perspicacious in acquiring paintings by Jack B. Yeats and his circle.
  • Horses are one of the recurring motifs in Yeats's art, symbolic of loyalty, intelligence and the unbridled freedom of his early childhood.
  • Being everywhere at once while going nowhere in particular is what poets do, and Yeats did it.
  • Without ridiculing the poet, he gently suggests Mrs Yeats must have been manipulating the spiritual dialogues for her own benign purposes.
  • In 1926, when O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars, was produced, there were violent scenes, Yeats declaiming to the audience that they had disgraced themselves again.
  • Foster has spent seventeen years working on his life of Yeats and has absorbed the store of sources.
  • Yeats came to realize that eternal beauty could only live in the realm of art.
  • The letters span his college career, the early years in London, his development as a poet and a central figure in the new modernist movement, his meetings with numerous literary figures Yeats, Eliot, Ford, Lewis, his move to Paris in 1921 and on to Rapallo, a seaside resort town in northern Italy, in 1924. Filial Piety Made New
  • Maud Gonne was the muse of W.B. Yeats, the Irish poet.
  • They were defeated by the odd goal in five in the U16 league semi final by Yeats United.
  • Yeats painted the little scene across both front and back of a paper envelope which was then stamped and franked when he posted it to John Masefield in 1905.
  • Yeats drew from mystical or occult traditions.
  • Yeats had his own solution: "An aged man is but a paltry thing, /A tattered coat upon a stick, unless /Soul clap hands and sing, and louder sing / For every tatter in its mortal dress. Peter Davis: Milestone or Millstone?
  • WH Auden made the strongest case against literature in his elegy for WB Yeats: ‘Now Ireland has her weather and her madness still / For poetry makes nothing happen’.
  • If it is true, as Yeats said, that ‘in dreams begins responsibility,’ what remains to be established in Ball's work is a sense of what responsibilities his luminous, arresting, uncanny dreamscapes call the reader toward.
  • After the civil war in the 1920s a committee was established under the chairmanship of WB Yeats to mint a coinage fit for a country newly independent for the UK.
  • His visionary experience also stands between the mystical and the metaphorical, rather than straightforwardly purporting to be supernatural as in the case of Yeats.
  • The U12 side went down by the odd goal in seven to Yeats United.
  • Subsequent bulletins were upbeat but a muscle problem would not dissipate and, a further ten days later, Yeats was scratched from the Derby.
  • There are many parallels between Yeats and the Romantic poets.
  • Readers with deep pockets should feel free to purchase this W.B. Yeats second issue for my library.
  • Estimates begin at €50-100 for an amber cheroot holder and a quantity of smoking equipment belonging to the Yeats family.
  • I have pasted over the frontispiece a drawing of Yeats by the Senior Yeats which this edition does not reprint from The Trembling of the Veil.
  • With a wide and varied selection of events, displays and performances, the festival captures the spirit of Yeats's works and the imagination of Sligo audiences.
  • With all due respect the Yeats Summer School is a bit highbrow, appeals only to the few, and is generally regarded as a tourist attraction.
  • Poetry has been especially impacted: the Dawn-esque symbolism of Yeats informs Ted Hughes, and much Seamus Heaney and John Berryman.
  • Somewhere in the middle of this sequence I realised that this may be the only American movie since 2001 brave or foolhardy enough to take on – to conflate, even – the infinite and the intimate, the cosmic and the cellular, the extraordinary and the infra-ordinary, all in Malick's habitual spirit of big-hearted, symphonic grandeur, steeped in Whitman, Emerson and Yeats. Is Terrence Malick assuming Stanley Kubrick's mantle?
  • JM Synge was born an Englishman and inhabited the same gentrified Anglo-Irish world as Yeats.
  • Almost as well-known as the mischievous re-touchings of the surrealist painters, the heady prose description by Walter Pater was considered by WB Yeats to be so original and poetic that he lineated it himself so as to form the opening "poem" of his 1936 anthology, The Oxford Book of Modern Verse: "She is older than the rocks among which she sits;/Like the Vampire/She has been dead many times … Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
  • He was Pemberton and Yeats prizeman, and Bladwin scholar and research scholar in 1927.
  • Similarly, if you go back and look at what Yeats and his acolytes and influences were doing with Irish literature, you do not find the kind of focus on elaborate hypotaxis that you associate with, say, the Donne moment. Panel 2: Aesthetic Lineage and Originality : Ange Mlinko : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation
  • From the very beginning of the Irish National Dramatic Company, Mr. Yeats has been an advocate of scenery that is background chiefly, and in no way divertive of attention from the play itself, its thought, its words, its acting. Irish Plays and Playwrights
  • Yeats assembled for children a less detailed version, Irish Fairy Tales, which appeared in 1892.
  • Volume 2 of Roy Foster's magisterial biography of W. B. Yeats opens in 1915, when Yeats was in his fiftieth year and at a crossroads in his life.

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