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To Hold in a Single Thought Reality and Justice

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From: The Virginia Quarterly Review
Date: 20070701
Author:Kirsch, Adam

Yeats, Pound, Auden, and the Modernist Ideal

On the night of October 24,1917, William Butler Yeats was just four days into an already inauspicious honeymoon. At fifty-two, he had married a twenty-fiveyear-old named Georgie Hyde-Lees, but only after proposing marriage first to his longtime love, Maud Gonne, and then to Maud's young daughter, Iseult. After both of them said no, he turned to George, an Englishwoman whom he knew through their common interest in magic and the occult. Between the age difference and Yeats's continuing love for the Gonnes, things did not look promising for the ...

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