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Ireland as an imaginary place in W. B. Yeats's The Herne's Egg.(William Butler Yeats)(Critical essay)
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West Virginia University Philological Papers
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September 22, 2006
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- Lapisardi, Frederick S.
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With the exception of The Player Queen, The Resurrection, Calvary, and the two Oedipus adaptations, all of Yeats plays appear to take place in Ireland. In some cases, as with The Dreaming of the Bones where a true Yeatsian may actually trace each stop along the Young Man and two ghosts' journey up the hill to Corcomroe Abbey in County Clare, with three natural stops along the way, the real setting adds immeasurably to the meaning of the play. And certainly, Yeats's reworking of elements from Samuel Ferguson's poem Congal places the action of The Herne's Egg in Ireland. So do the set directions for scene 3, as Congal and his entourage gather "Before the gates of Tara" (Variorum ...
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Wildcatter goaltender Yeats has plenty of gamble in him.
Beaumont Enterprise (Beaumont, TX);
March 8, 2007 ;
759 words
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MARCH MADNESS; Yeats still rebuilding.(Sports)
The Boston Herald;
March 25, 2002 ;
Murphy, Mark;
489 words
......I was the No. 1 guy,'' said Yeats, now 6-7-3. But I didn't focus...game. Consequently I didn't play well, and the coach sat me...on home ice in Alfond Arena. Yeats, known for his conservative...once again be paying off, as Yeats and Morrison await Whitehead...Friday that Mike was going to ...
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YEATS PULLS OUT ALL THE STOPS HE IS NOW THE BLACK BEARS' MAIN MAN
The Boston Globe;
March 18, 2000 ;
John Vellante, Globe Staff;
484 words
......his last 10 starts (9-0-1), Yeats allowed 24 goals but a half...the top of my game," said Yeats. "I'm really comfortable every game I play. I'm right on top of everything...shots." BU can attest to that. Yeats was sharp with 13 saves in...seeing it most of the season. "[Yeats] was solid. He ...
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Yeats and the women who loved him. (a critique of 'Sailing to Byzantium,'...
American Theatre;
February 1, 1997 ;
Pearce, Michele;
562 words
......proclaimed William Butler Yeats in one of his letters. Sandra Deer's new play, Sailing to Byzantium...would surely satisfy Yeats, as it features him...first scene of the play, Yeats discovers that three...perhaps a tribute to Yeats and Maud Gonne's...National Theatre, the play ...
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Yeats gets call, turns back Terriers in semis
Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME;
March 16, 2002 ;
JOHN HOLYOKE; OF THE NEWS STAFF;
728 words
......got to be ready to play." But on Thursday...bound for Boston, Yeats had an interesting...that he would really play well." Two weeks ago, against BU, Yeats started the second...where he didn't get to play a lot," Yeats said. "I finally had...
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The legacy of yeats in Contemporary Irish Poetry.(Critical Essay)
Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies;
September 22, 2004 ;
Schuchard, Ronald;
787 words
......to dissociate himself from Yeats's 'crass, rhetorical posturing' when Yeats asks in 'Man and the Echo...history, whether his Irish play of 1902 led to the English...prefaced his brief discussion of Yeats by saying that 'The work of...from precursors other than Yeats, but in spite of ...
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YEATS: POETRY IN MOTION
The Boston Globe;
March 25, 2002 ;
Bob Duffy, Globe Staff;
787 words
......we were going to play them one game each...That's because Yeats had been matchless...their number," said Yeats. "I really love to play against them. They're my favorite team to play against because they...always in the game." Yeats rarely could make...
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What was lost: can a biography of W. B. Yeats rely on historical fact...
Harper's Magazine;
December 1, 2003 ;
Donoghue, Denis;
787 words
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'She set me writing my first play': Laura Armstrong and Yeats's early...
Irish University Review: a journal of Irish Studies;
September 22, 2005 ;
Redwine, Elizabeth Brewer;
787 words
......Laura Armstrong, the first woman to inspire Yeats to write plays and verse. Scholars tend...as 'a flirt and a tease'. (4) In fact, Yeats's brief friendship with Laura Armstrong...but their relationship also influenced Yeats as he began, soon after meeting her, to...
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Football: I COULD HAVE BEEN A BHOY; Reds legend Yeats reveals how he...
Liverpool Echo (Liverpool, England);
March 18, 2003 ;
787 words
......home from watching me play. His report never...it.'' McNeill and Yeats ended up on opposite...explosive,'' says Yeats. ``You have to remember...side, very tough to play,and they later proved...1 draw in Glasgow, Yeats acknowledges the odds...coming back into our play. ``We're coming ...
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Why Yeats matters.
San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, Calif.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service);
December 10, 2003 ;
787 words
......land was extremely complicated and compromised. And it's Yeats' struggle to make sense of the complications and compromises...both the drama of his life and the essence of his poetry. Yeats once famously wrote, We make out of the quarrel with others...much of his greatest verse comes from the tension between ...
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Why Yeats matters.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;
December 17, 2003 ;
Matthews, Charles;
787 words
......land was extremely complicated and compromised. And it's Yeats' struggle to make sense of the complications and compromises...both the drama of his life and the essence of his poetry. Yeats once famously wrote, We make out of the quarrel with others...much of his greatest verse comes from the tension between ...
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Yeats ready for second chance, whenever it appears ; Matt Yeats allowed...
Portland Press Herald (Maine);
January 23, 2004 ;
JENN MENENDEZ Staff Writer;
608 words
......playing in the ECHL last year. Saturday was his big moment. Yeats held the Pirates in the game until the middle of the second...goal off a rush. The third goal came off a two-on-one. Yeats had no chance. No. 4, Yeats should have had, he said, adding it was "a little wrister...goal, too." Army said it ...
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The Yeatsian refrain in Paul Muldoon's Moy Sand and Gravel.(William Butler...
ANQ;
June 22, 2006 ;
Russell, Richard Rankin;
787 words
......of Muldoon's precocious word-play and linguistic experimentation...marked impulse to [...] Joycean play in exile and cunning and the...later Irish poets than W. B. Yeats's poetry, because the poets...directly engaging the work of Yeats in his poetry, with some notable...such as 7, Middagh Street. ...
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Bears happy with efforts of 2 goalies Yeats, Morrison ready
Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME;
March 28, 2002 ;
LARRY MAHONEY; OF THE NEWS STAFF;
770 words
......and a .857 save percentage. Yeats has a career playoff record...East quarterfinals on March 7. Yeats played the next three Hockey...gave me that extra chance to play again. Mike has had a great...going well for me lately," said Yeats. "It's awesome going into the...against BU. I don't like to ...
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