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Michael Robartes And The Dancer
''Michael Robartes and the Dancer'' is a 1920 book of poems by W. B. Yeats. It includes the poems: # Michael Robartes and the Dancer # Solomon and the Witch # An Image from a Past Life # Under Saturn # Easter, 1916 # Sixteen Dead Men # The Rose Tree # On a Political Prisoner # The Leaders of the Crowd # Towards Break of Day # Demon and Beast # The Second Coming # A Prayer for My Daughter # A Meditation in Time of War # To be Carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee See also * 1920 in poetry * 1920 in literature * Thoor Ballylee Thoor Ballylee Castle (Irish ''Túr Bhaile Uí Laí'') is a fortified, 15th-century Anglo-Norman tower house built by the septs de Burgo, or Burke, near the town of Gort in County Galway, Ireland. It is also known as ''Yeats' Tower'' because it ... External links ''Michael Robartes and the Dancer''on theotherpages.org 1920 poetry books Irish poetry collections Poetry by W. B. Yeats {{poetry-collection-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1920 In Poetry
— Wilfred Owen, concluding lines of "Dulce et Decorum est", written 1917, published posthumously this year Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). '' Fire and Ice'' by Robert Frost Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To know that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. --first published in December in ''Harper's Magazine'' Events * May – Irish poet W. B. Yeats concludes a lecture tour (begun in the fall of 1919) in the United States and crosses the Atlantic to settle in Oxford. * December – The ''Poems'' of English war poet Wilfred Owen (killed in action 1918) are published posthumously in London with an introduction by his friend Siegfried Sassoon; only five of Owen's verses had been published during his lifetime, thus his wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Easter, 1916
''Easter, 1916'' is a poem by W. B. Yeats describing the poet's torn emotions regarding the events of the Easter Rising staged in Ireland against British rule on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916. The uprising was unsuccessful, and most of the Irish republican leaders involved were executed for treason. The poem was written between May and September 1916, printed privately, 25 copies, and appeared in magazines in 1920 but first published in 1920 in the collection ''Michael Robartes and the Dancer''. Background Even though a committed nationalist, Yeats usually rejected violence as a means to secure Irish independence, and as a result had strained relations with some of the figures who eventually led the uprising. The sudden and abrupt execution of the leaders of the revolutionaries, however, was as much a shock to Yeats as it was to ordinary Irish people at the time, who did not expect the events to take such a bad turn so soon. Yeats was working through his feelings about the rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rose Tree (poem)
''The Rose Tree'' is a poem by William Butler Yeats. It was published in 1921 as part of his collection Michael Robartes and the Dancer. It describes a fictional conversation between James Connolly and Padraig Pearse, the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rising The Easter Rising ( ga, Éirí Amach na Cásca), also known as the Easter Rebellion, was an armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week in April 1916. The Rising was launched by Irish republicans against British rule in Ireland with the a .... First, Pearse says that words and wind from across the sea (England) have withered the rose tree (Irish nationalism). Connolly replies that the tree only needs to be watered (that nationalism only needs to be tended to). Pearse then says that the wells are all dry, and that only their own blood "will make a right rose tree". Pearse and Connolly were both shot by firing squad after the Rising, thus "giving their blood". It worked. In 1922, after a brutal war of Independence, The I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Second Coming (poem)
"The Second Coming" is a poem written by Irish poet W. B. Yeats in 1919, first printed in ''The Dial'' in November 1920, and afterwards included in his 1921 collection of verses '' Michael Robartes and the Dancer''. The poem uses Christian imagery regarding the Apocalypse and Second Coming to allegorically describe the atmosphere of post-war Europe. It is considered a major work of modernist poetry and has been reprinted in several collections, including ''The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry''. Historical context The poem was written in 1919 in the aftermath of the First World War and the beginning of the Irish War of Independence in January 1919, that followed the Easter Rising in April 1916, at a time before the British Government decided to send in the Black and Tans to Ireland. Yeats used the phrase "the second birth" instead of "the Second Coming" in his first drafts. The poem is also connected to the 1918–1919 flu pandemic: In the weeks preceding Yeats's writin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Prayer For My Daughter
"A Prayer for my Daughter" is a poem by William Butler Yeats written in 1919 and published in 1921 as part of Yeats' collection ''Michael Robartes and the Dancer''. It is written to Anne Yeats, Anne, his daughter with Georgie Hyde Lees, whom Yeats married after his last marriage proposal to Maud Gonne was rejected in 1916. Yeats wrote the poem while staying in a tower at Thoor Ballylee during the Anglo-Irish War, two days after Anne's birth on 26 February 1919. The poem reflects Yeats's complicated views on Irish Nationalism, Human sexuality, sexuality, and is considered an important work of Modernist poetry in English, Modernist poetry. Background The poem begins by describing "storm" which is a "howling", and his newborn daughter, sleeping "half hid" in her cradle, and protected somewhat from the storm. The storm, which can in part be read as symbolizing the Irish War of Independence, overshadows the birth of Yeats' daughter and creates the political frame that sets the text i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1920 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1920. Events *February 2 – '' Beyond the Horizon'', Eugene O'Neill's second full-length play, opens with a Morosco Theatre matinée in New York City, partly as a producer's experiment and partly to quiet the actor Richard Bennett, who sought to play the lead. Reviewers hail the play and O'Neill gains fame. *February 27 – An inaugural meeting of the Bloomsbury Group's Memoir Club is arranged by Mary MacCarthy in London. *Spring – The poet Anton Podbevšek and others organize the Novo Mesto Spring (''Novomeška pomlad'') event, the beginning of Slovenian Modernism. *March 15 – '' The Blue Flame'', a four-act play by George V. Hobart and John Willard after Leta Vance Nicholson, opens at the Shubert Theatre (New York City) on Broadway before a year's U.S. tour. Though described by a critic as "one of the worst plays ever written," it is a commercial success, largely due to Theda Bara as the ce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thoor Ballylee
Thoor Ballylee Castle (Irish ''Túr Bhaile Uí Laí'') is a fortified, 15th-century Anglo-Norman tower house built by the septs de Burgo, or Burke, near the town of Gort in County Galway, Ireland. It is also known as ''Yeats' Tower'' because it was once owned and inhabited by the poet William Butler Yeats. It has been described as ‘the most important public building in Ireland’ by late Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. History The castle was built in the 15th (or possibly 16th) century and originally formed part of the huge estates of the Earl of Clanricarde, Earls of Clanricarde, from the de Burgo or Burke family. The nearby four-arched bridge dates to around 1825. In 1837, the Carrig family was recorded as living in the castle. At the time of Griffith's Valuation (1857), Patrick Carrick was leasing a herd's house, castle and land at Ballylee, barony of Kiltartan, from William Henry Gregory. At the time, the property was valued at £5. In the early 1900s, the castle/tower wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1920 Poetry Books
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Irish Poetry Collections
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