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Michael Robartes and the Dancer
work by Yeats
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“Easter 1916”
- In Easter 1916
…in 1916 and collected in Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921). It commemorates the martyrs of the Easter Rising, an insurrection against the British government in Ireland in 1916, which resulted in the execution of several Irish nationalists whom Yeats knew personally.
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English literature
- In English literature: Celtic Modernism: Yeats, Joyce, Jones, and MacDiarmid
…Wild Swans at Coole (1917), Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), The Tower (1928), and The Winding Stair (1929) derived in large measure from the way in which (caught up by the violent discords of contemporary Irish history) he accepted the fact that his idealized Ireland was illusory. At its…
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