Alisa Marko: Guest Lecture William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

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Alisa Marko Guest LectureWilliam Butler Yeats
(1865-1939)

• The greatest poet of our time, certainly the
  greatest poet in this language, and, so far as I
  can tell, in any language.
• T.S. Eliot

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The Lake Isle of InnisfreeSligo, Ireland
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• Founds Dublin Hermetic Society, 1885
• The Wanderings of Oisin, 1889
• Founds National Literary Society, 1891
• Founds National (Abbey) Theater, 1897
• Consciousness is Conflict Maud Gonne marries
  MacBride, 1903
• Easter Rebellion, 1916
• Marries Georgiana Hyde-Lees, 1917 begins
  automatic writing that leads to A Vision, 1926
• Serves as Irish Senator, 1922-1928
• Nobel Prize for Literature, 1923
• Purgatory written and performed, 1938
• Died in France-ten years later moved back to
  Ireland with a Kings ceremonial burial

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Pre-Raphaelite movement

• Art Nouveau- emphasized the mysterious and
  unfathomable-especially those recesses of the
  mind being explored by Freud and Jung
• Suggestions above statements
• Symbols above facts
• Musical measures above common speech

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Maud Gonne (left) and Georgiana Hyde-Lees
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Byzantium
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From Boston College Magazine, Winter 2001 An
Old Fool
http//www.bc.edu/publications/bcm/winter_2001/ll_
yeats.html