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Yeats

(yāts), William Butler 1865-1939.

Irish writer. A founder of the Irish National Theatre Company at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, he wrote many short plays, including The Countess Kathleen (1892). His poetry, published in collections such as The Winding Stair (1929), ranges from early love lyrics to the complex symbolist works of his later years. He won the 1923 Nobel Prize for literature.

Yeats′i·an adj.

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Yeatsian - in the manner of William Butler Yeats

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I say 'postmodern' and not Internet-age or whatever else, because I'm specifically referring to the spirit of a Yeatsian the-center-cannot-hold kind of postmodernism in the 2010's merch aesthetic.

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The Poet's Spring Tide

Rather than celebrating the Yeatsian cloak of dreams, he carefully stages encounters with reality that tear its fragile fabric, inviting the audience to consider the precarious lives and bodies that it covers.

"Still Another Judith": Protest and Performance in Brian Friel's Film Adaptation of The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

Most critics refer to the three swans as Yeatsian symbols, and many note their return westward as a return to Ireland--where Stella, while visiting Mount Morris, also saw three swans (Heat 186).

RESISTING DISSOLUTION: THE SALVIFIC TURN IN ELIZABETH BOWEN'S THE HEAT OF THE DAY

Yeats's "Easter 1916" through an interpretative lens of Yeatsian temporality and discusses how Yeats employs a poetics of temporality in writing history into his own times.

Poetic form and literary tradition: an introduction

Eccentric that I am, my Yeatsian reflection was sparked by a single word, one that I had never encountered.

Trust words of poets before the politicians

A remote, pre-industrial country, surrounded by fields, cliffs, the sea and bogs, alludes to the Yeatsian myth of the West as an epitome of Irishness; whereas an old Victorian house refers to the trope of the Big House with the Anglo-Irish ascendancy suffering from the consequences of self-imposed isolationism.

The significance of space in Iris Murdoch's The Unicorn as a twentieth-century Irish gothic novel

(5) The Yeatsian occasional poem is, in fact, a fusion of these two modes: the Jonsonian verse epistle and the Coleridgean conversation poem.

Yeats and the occasional poem: "Easter 1916"

Boeninger, Stephanie Pocock "The Matching Swans": Yeatsian Mythology In Louise Gluck's Descending Figure.

Loss, recovery, and renewal in Ann Patchett's State of Wonder

Bridgwater's comparison was more interesting to this reviewer for the isolation of folk motifs in Tolkien's poem (not detailed in this review) than for the Yeatsian comparison.