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Remorse for Intemperate Speech. "Remorse for Intemperate Speech" is a poem written by Irish poet William Butler Yeats. It appeared in his 1933 volume of poems The Winding Stair and Other Poems. Yeats wrote this poem in August 1931. The contents speaks about the fanatic feelings and the capacity for hatred a person can feel in the dark part of ...
Iain Norman Macleod (11 November 1913 – 20 July 1970) was a British Conservative Party politician, government minister and journalist. A playboy and professional bridge player in his twenties, after war service Macleod worked for the Conservative Research Department before entering Parliament in 1950. He was noted as a formidable ...
The Winding Stair and Other Poems. First edition (1933) The Winding Stair is a volume of poems by Irish poet W. B. Yeats, published in 1933. It was the next new volume after 1928's The Tower. The title poem was originally published in 1929 by Fountain Press in a signed limited edition, which is exceedingly rare. [1]
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The poem was written in 1919 in the aftermath of the First World War [ 4] and the beginning of the Irish War of Independence in January 1919, which followed the Easter Rising in April 1916, and before the British government had decided to send in the Black and Tans to Ireland. Yeats used the phrase "the second birth" instead of "the Second ...
Brookhart was born in a cabin on a farm in Scotland County, Missouri, the son of Abram C. and Cynthia Wildman Brookhart. [1] He was educated in country schools, graduated from Bloomfield High School, and attended Southern Iowa Normal School, both in Bloomfield, Iowa, where he graduated in 1889 with an emphasis in scientific courses. [2]
The Wild Swans at Coole (Collection)/An Irish Airman Foresees his Death at Wikisource. "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" is a poem by Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), written in 1918 and first published in the Macmillan edition of The Wild Swans at Coole in 1919. [ 1] The poem is a soliloquy given by an aviator in the First ...
Photograph of William Butler Yeats taken by Charles Beresford in 1911. "On being asked for a War Poem" is a poem by William Butler Yeats written on 6 February 1915 in response to a request by Henry James that Yeats compose a political poem about World War I. [1] Yeats changed the poem's title from "To a friend who has asked me to sign his ...