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Excerpt from William Butler Yeats: And the Irish Literary Revival

Yeats's The Wind Among the Reeds, for permission to quote from that volume.

Finally, I wish to thank my friend, Mr. William Aspenwall Bradley, for many kind suggestions.

The titles of volumes in which poems mentioned in the text are to be found are given in the f cot-notes.

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Excerpt from William Butler Yeats: And the Irish Literary Revival

It is the aim of this book to give a sketch of the Irish literary revival that may serve as a background to the work of Mr. Yeats; to show how many phases of Irish life he has brought into literature, and in what sense he has given a new voice to the Celtic spirit; and in general to smooth the way to an enjoyment and appreciation of his poetry, plays, and stories.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.