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YEATS AT WAR: POETIC STRATEGIES AND POLITICAL RECONSTRUCTION FROM THE EASTER RISING TO THE FREE STATE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2002

R. F. Foster
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Abstract

THIS lecture is named for George Walter Prothero (1848–1922), historian and editor: and one excuse for giving a lecture on W. B. Yeats to an audience of historians is that Yeats actually knew Prothero. They both sat on the Academic Commttee of the Royal Society of Literature and in 1912, after a meeting of this body, Yeats wrote to Lady Gregory:

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Review Article
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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society , Volume 11 , December 2001 , pp. 125 - 145
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society2001

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