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From: The Washington Times
Date: 19981129
Author:Driscoll, Kevin

On January 28, 1939, the poet W.B. Yeats passed away in France, leaving behind a memorable epitaph - "Cast a cold eye/ On life, on death./ Horseman pass by" - and a yawning shadow over Irish literature.

And how could he not? Yeats, in many respects, was Irish literature. It was he who dispatched the playwright J.M. Synge (author of "The Playboy of the Western World") to the west of Ireland to uncover, as Yeats put it, "a life which has never found expression"; he who, along with Lady Augusta Gregory, created Dublin's Abbey Theatre as a venue in which that "life which has ...

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