Go to Know: Yeats’ Ireland

LiteraryTraveler May 5, 2005

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"You got to go there, to know there", wrote Zora Neale Hurston. Although this African-American writer does not automatically evoke Ireland's patron-poet, Hurston's words are a compelling command for any serious student of William Butler Yeats. If you want to truly comprehend the poetry of Yeats, and I mean all of Yeats at his most concretely Irish self, you must visit Ireland. Without seeing, touching, walking--and even drinking--in his footsteps, your understanding of this Nobel Prize winner's work will be incomplete.
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