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Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (2): 174–190.
Published: 01 June 2002
... departure. In a series of short lyrics issuing from his troubled relationship with Maud Gonne,Yeats for the first time brings ancient Greece into an important poetic dialogue Twentieth-Century Literature 48.2 Summer 2002 174 Yeats’s “No Second Troy” with modern Ireland. While the volume’s...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2009) 55 (3): 393–400.
Published: 01 September 2009
...” (Rounding the Horn 56); the villanelle “In the Park” repeats the line “The trees overhead are holding hands” (Rounding the Horn 115); and in “From W. B. Yeats to his friend Maud Gonne” Stallworthy can “picture him turning the pen in his hand / considering what to write” (Rounding the Horn 38...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (3): 285–310.
Published: 01 September 2000
... Rosaleen, the Shan Van Vocht, and Eriu, she engaged the Irish literary imagination long before the first production of the play. More precisely, the figure that leaped into prominent public consciousness when Maude Gonne played Cathleen in Yeats and Lady Gregory’s play had intro­...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2001) 47 (2): 137–168.
Published: 01 June 2001
... making a sacrifice func­ tions as a bitter trope in Yeats, with women such as Maud Gonne and Constance Gore-Booth represented as sacrificing all (or what Yeats con­ sidered as “all”) to the cause of extreme nationalism. For such women, “Too long a sacrifice,” as Yeats wrote...
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Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (3): 292–323.
Published: 01 September 2002
... M aud Gonne “Barter . . . every good .. . For an old bel­ lows full o f angry wind” (189). Similarly, in times o f “mob mania,” Mac­ N eice “pray[s] off from my son the love o f that infinite / W hich is too greedy and too obvious; let his Absolute / Like any four-walled house...