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Margaret Mills Harper. Wisdom of Two: The Spiritual and Literary Collaboration of George and W. B. Yeats.(Book review)
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June 22, 2008
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MARGARET MILLS HARPER. Wisdom of Two: The Spiritual and Literary Collaboration of George and W. B. Yeats. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. xii + 382.
In a certain sense, Harper's study of the Yeatses' automatic writing sessions and their role in shaping the Irish poet's aesthetics has been a lifetime in the making: as she notes in her preface, both her mother and her father, the recently deceased Yeatsian scholar George Mills Harper, spent most of the years when she was a child "working with the Yeatses' occult papers, composing and compiling various books and articles along the way" (p. vii). Indeed, scholarship on Yeats, and on the book A Vision in particular, ...
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It Takes Two.(Wisdom for Two: The Spiritual and Literary Collaboration of...
Irish Literary Supplement;
March 22, 2007 ;
Mahony, Christina Hunt;
787 words
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THE WRITE WAY TO ANSWER ALL YOUR PROBLEMS.(Features)
The People (London, England);
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Sunday Mirror (London, England);
March 18, 2007 ;
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The Scotsman;
June 5, 1999 ;
Robert Nye;
743 words
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February 1, 2005 ;
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The Scotsman;
September 27, 2003 ;
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787 words
......into trances and producing automatic writing for her husband's pleasure...used the excitements of the automatic writing sessions to cure her husband...George's trances and once the automatic writing stopped the couple's sex
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planchette
The Oxford American College Dictionary;
46 words
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BIOGRAPHY Poetry in emotions
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December 4, 1999 ;
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430 words
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms;
CHRISTOPHER BALDICK;
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Loss of a National Treasure.(George Mills Harper)(Obituary)
Irish Literary Supplement;
March 22, 2007 ;
440 words
...George Mills Harper died peacefully in Tallahassee, Florida, on January 29, 2006, after...materials over forty years, a scholarly helpmate nonpareil. Margaret Mills Harper found the Irish and Yeatsian influences of her childhood irresistible...
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Is There a Psycholinguist in the House?
All Things Considered (NPR);
July 29, 1994 ;
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automatic writing
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms;
CHRISTOPHER BALDICK;
83 words
...automatic writing, a method of composition that tries to dispense with conscious control or mental censorship, transcribing immediately the promptings...
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ATAXIA Automatic Writing (Record Collection)
The Press;
October 16, 2004 ;
COLLETT, Geoff;
120 words
...ATAXIA Automatic Writing (Record Collection) * * * In which John Frusciante (Red Hot Chilli Peppers) indulges his professed love of underground kings Fugazi...
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