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Yeats Context

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Yeats Context

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