A Story-Teller's Holiday
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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1918 Original Publisher: Priv. print. for subscribers only by Cumann Sean-eolais na h-Eireann Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary History / General Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / European / French Notes: This is a black an...
MoreGeneral Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1918 Original Publisher: Priv. print. for subscribers only by Cumann Sean-eolais na h-Eireann Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary History / General Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / European / French Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER 4. A WEEK goes by easily amid renewals of friendship, and verifications of the people of "Hail and Farewell," one after the other -- a roll-call in fact, all answering their names except Bailey and Yeats; Bailey died a few months ago of a gun-shot wound, and already Dublin society has forgotten him. His gift was atmosphere. He brought an atmosphere of happiness into the room; a precious gift truly for the conduct of life, but one so easily appreciated that it is forgotten as easily as the passage of a pleasant breeze coming and going in and out of a garden. Yeats now lives, or is going to live, in a ruined castle in Galway, for the sake of the spectres -- such is the report, which, however untrue, is an acceptable explanation of his strange choice of dwelling -- himself having become a myth from too long brooding on myths, and myths being, if not spectres, at least of the same kin. Another report avers that his retirement may be attributed to his belief that the poet should apply himself as soon as his poetry is written to the weaving of a "Poetic Personality." And at once the ruined castle rises before our eyes, for has it not been said that a poet must live in a cabin or a castle, these two dwellings representing the poles of humanity? Yeats' belief in his relationship to the Duke of Ormond precludes the ...
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