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\"W.B._Yeats_(6435353487)\"<\/a>

Yeats at age fifty-eight, via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n

Today marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of W. B. Yeats\u2019s death.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Ottoline had what she called her Thursday parties, at which you met a lot of writers. Yeats was often there. He loosened up a great deal if he could tell malicious stories, and so he talked about George Moore. Yeats particularly disliked George Moore because of what he wrote in his book Hail and Farewell<\/em>, which is in three volumes, and which describes Yeats in a rather absurd way. Moore thought Yeats looked very much like a black crow or a rook as he walked by the lake on Lady Gregory\u2019s estate at Coole. He also told how Yeats would spend the whole morning writing five lines of poetry and then he\u2019d be sent up strawberries and cream by Lady Gregory, and so Yeats would have to get his own back on George Moore. Another thing that amused Yeats very much for some reason was Robert Graves and the whole saga of his life with Laura Riding. He told how Laura Riding threw herself out of a window without breaking her spine, or breaking it but being cured very rapidly. All that pleased Yeats tremendously.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u2014Stephen Spender, the Art of Poetry No. 25<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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