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William Butler Yeats

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	POETRY AND PROSE FROM IN POSSE REVIEW
		"The Countess Kathleen" is nowhere listed in the contents, and "The Rose," we now know, was never a book per se, and certainly not one issued in 1893.
		In fact, "The Collected Poems of W. Yeats" is a carefully constructed accumulation which does not accurately reflect the original composition of his individual books for at least the first half of his career, and the contents pages of the volume do nothing to make this evident.
		Furthermore, some of the volumes included narrative or dramatic poems which [as is noted above] Yeats separated from his lyric poems for the collected edition.
	webdelsol.com /InPosse/renner.htm (1477 words)

	Kathleen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Kathleen is a female given name, used in English and Irish-language communities.
		Kathleen Kennedy Townsend - Lieutenant Governor of Maryland
		The second poetry collection of William Butler Yeats was entitled The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kathleen (305 words)

	`The Countess Cathleen': Manuscript Materials. by Ronald Schuchard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Countess Cathleen, the drama of a woman selling her soul to buy food for her famine-struck people, has the longest and most colourful textual history of Yeats's twenty-six collected plays.
		Shortly after his first meeting in 1888 with Maud Gonne, who expressed her wish for a play she could perform in Dublin, the smitten poet began to transform the folk tale `Countess Kathleen O'Shea' into a play that would be the object of restless revision for the next twenty-five years.
		The pattern of alteration was set when Gonne's refusal of Yeats's marriage proposal during composition dramatically effected the final acts of the first version, which he dedicated to her when it appeared in The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics (1892).
	www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/701/cathleen95.html (636 words)

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		In The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics (1892) the main work is a play.
		Its plot originates from an ancient legend about a girl who traded her soul to the demons to rescue her people from starvation.
		The personal drama of the dominant hero of Yeats' lyrics of the 1910s always corresponds to the drama of the epoch, the tragic quality of his life is enhanced by the anticipation of national calamities.
	www.nationaudio.com /News/DailyNation/120999/Features/SE24.html (1570 words)

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		Preferring to share the fate of his warrior comrades, whatever it may be, he anticipates the discovery by many later Yeats figures that even paradise, fairy or Christian, is not enough to quell their poignant memories of the human lot.
		Although The Countess Cathleen and The Land of Heart's Desire are both verse dramas (usual for Yeats), they show his attempt to produce spoken, not just "poetic," discourse, for he intended them for stage performance from the beginning.
		The Countess Cathleen had been written in part to impress her with Yeats's ability to enter the world of action (staging a public drama), but "The Two Trees" counsels inner serenity.
	www.wsu.edu /~hydev/POEMS-26.htm (1547 words)

	W. B. Yeats and "A Vision": An Overview
		Few poets continue to produce work which maintains their highest level of achievement through into old age, but Yeats is one of these, and many would argue that the work of his later years represents a more significant achievement than that of his earlier years, though this is not to compare like with like.
		Though his reputation rests primarily upon his lyric poetry, he was also a dramatist, story-writer and essayist, and he was associated intimately with the cultural and political life of his country, Ireland.
		Between the two poles, there are stages which represent varying proportions of objectivity and subjectivity, and directions of movement towards either objectivity or subjectivity.
	www.yeatsvision.com /Overview.html (4517 words)

	The Kelmscott Bookshop - The Countess Kathleen. And Various Legends and Lyrics [FIRST EDITION] - Yeats, W.B. - FIRST ...
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		This is Yeat's first play written when he was 27 years old.
		Yeat's was one of the founding members of the Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin, at which "The Countess Kathleen" was the first play performed.
	www.kelmscottbookshop.com /details.php?record=17275&URLPAIR= (111 words)

	William Butler Yeats (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The lyrics to Joni Mitchell\'s song "Slouching toward Bethlehem" are based on Yeats\' "The Second Coming".
		The Celtic band Clandestine uses the words from Lake Isle of Innisfree as the lyrics to the song Innisfree.
		The lyrics to Keane\'s song "Bad Dream" are directly inspired by Yeats\' "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death".
	www.pleasantoncaus.com /topic/William_Butler_Yeats (2910 words)

	The 19th Century Shop:
		Yeats's scarce first play, The Countess Cathleen was modeled on the story of Countess Kathleen O'Shea, which Yeats includes in his Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (1888).
		In this tale of famine in old Ireland, people sell their souls to relieve their hunger, while the countess attempts to ameliorate their condition.
		This play was the first ever performed in Dublin's Abbey Theatre (then the Irish Literary Theatre) on May 8, 1899, marking the beginning of the Irish Literary Revival in theater.
	www.19thcenturyshop.com /apps/catalogitem?id=91 (160 words)

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