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Poetry of William Butler Yeats: In The Seven Woods

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Yeats, William Butler

Yeats, William Butler
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
In The Seven Woods

Introduction:

Between The Wind Among the Reeds and this briefer volume of 1904 two
important things happened to Yeats. First, he became seriously involved in
theatrical business (he'd confined himself simply to play-writing before),
founding with his patroness, Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and George Moore the
Irish theatre society which ultimately became the world-famous Abbey Theatre.
And second, he experienced, in February 1903, the terrible shock of Maud
Gonne's marriage to Major John MacBride. The impact of this news was
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