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Yeats Background/Brief Look at Views/Culture/Society
Phoebe Coburn
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Yeats Context
  1. Irish Nationalism
    1. Y. grew up w/ Irish discontent at end of 20th Cen.
      1. Y. sympathised w/ it
        1. Not nec. pro-violence
          1. Identified w/ Irish folklore/culture/politics/history/mythology
          2. Born when Ire. = UK
            1. Also lived in London
              1. Y. = Anglo-Irish
                1. Zeitgeist = Culture of the time
                  1. English Zg.
                    1. Money grabbing/materialistic
                      1. Hated all m/c for this reason
                    2. Irish Zg.
                      1. Culture/history/identity
                        1. Admired Irish aristocracy and peasantry
                      2. Y. thought
                  2. Y. = Protestant
                2. Nationalist Figures
                  1. John O'Leary
                    1. Fought for Irish Indep.
                      1. Books on Irish Hist.
                      2. Maud Gonne
                        1. Yeats unrequited love for her
                          1. Close relationship
                            1. Proposed 4x unsuccessfully
                              1. Proposed 2x to her daughter unsuccessfully
                      3. Poet in period late romantic-early modernist
                        1. Spiritual dimension/feeling/art/passion/imagination
                          1. Occult Society
                            1. Knowledge in magic
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