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yeat

n. (context dialectal Northern England English) (alternative spelling of gate nodot=1 English), obsolete except in place names.

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As a rule, this artificiality is accepted as Irishism, or Yeats is even credited with simplicity because he uses short words, but in fact one seldom comes on six consecutive lines of his verse in which there is not an archaism or an affected turn of speech.

Yeats and the borderer sat down, and the silence was thick enough you could breathe it.

Yeats reproduces from Croker, though not from the work of his which has already been mentioned.

Yeats find his inspiration in Ireland, overcoming, for the time, the denationalizing influences that the art of the centre must always exert.

Applying the fourth canto of the Tennyson Principle, we lambed the yeats with a loaded shelley and sonneted the poe plathing woman with a dose of pentameter frost.

Yeats and to the first plays of Synge that Lady Gregory started to create them.

Yeats and of Synge, I doubt whether it is drama that Lady Gregory would have chosen as the medium through which to express her reading of life.

Yeats and Synge, but also because of the practice of one type of gentlewoman in literature, of which Jane Austen is characteristic.

Tagore sent Yeats a bound edition of his Bengali poetry, do you know what happened?

He thought of Ireland, a place he had never visited, as a land of mists and gentle green hills, enlivened by the fiddle and the chaunter, where poets like Yeats and O’Faolain wandered and composed.

The merely political Fascist claims always to be fighting for justice: Yeats, the poet, sees at a glance that Fascism means injustice, and acclaims it for that very reason.

And what a coincidence that they should have met that time in San Fransisco and that two yeats later she and Jinks should actually buy the house that had once belonged to Mrs Bantry.

Maybe the baby is the Second Coming - the one Yeats wrote about in his poem, the beast slouching toward Bethlehem to be born.

Maud has left MacBride these several years, and Yeats still burns to win her.

Best of all had been the charcoal drawing of John Singer Sargent, sharp-featured yet with a sensitive mouth, looking passive but verging on a decisiveness Yeats seldom could rouse.