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    The Hour Glass: 'What do you know about wisdom?''
    The Hour Glass: 'What do you know about wisdom?''
    The Hour Glass: 'What do you know about wisdom?''
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    The Hour Glass: 'What do you know about wisdom?''

    By W. B. Yeats

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    William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939) is best described as Ireland’s national poet in addition to being one of the major twentieth-century literary figures of the English tongue.

    To many literary critics, Yeats represents the ‘Romantic poet of modernism,’ which is quite revealing about his extraordinary style that combines between the outward emphasis on the expression of emotions and the extensive use of symbolism, imagery and allusions.

    Yeats also wrote prose and drama and established himself as the spokesman of the Irish cause. His fame was greatly boosted mainly after he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923.

    His life was marked by his many love stories, by his great interest in oriental mysticism and occultism as well as by political engagement since he served as an Irish senator for two terms.

    Today, although William Butler Yeats’s contribution to literary modernism and to Irish nationalism remains incontestable.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStage Door
    Release dateJan 20, 2019
    ISBN9781787803886
    The Hour Glass: 'What do you know about wisdom?''

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      The Hour Glass - W. B. Yeats

      The Hour Glass by W.B. Yeats

      William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939) is best described as Ireland’s national poet in addition to being one of the major twentieth-century literary figures of the English tongue.

      To many literary critics, Yeats represents the ‘Romantic poet of modernism,’ which is quite revealing about his extraordinary style that combines between the outward emphasis on the expression of emotions and the extensive use of symbolism, imagery and allusions.

      Yeats also wrote prose and drama and established himself as the spokesman of the Irish cause. His fame was greatly boosted mainly after he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923.

      His life was marked by his many love stories, by his great interest in oriental mysticism and occultism as well as by political engagement since he served as an Irish senator for two terms.

      Today, although William Butler Yeats’s contribution to literary modernism and to Irish nationalism remains incontestable. 

      Index of Contents

      THE HOUR GLASS

      W. B. YEATS – A SHORT BIOGRAPHY

      THE HOUR GLASS

      SCENE:

      A large room with a door at the back and another at the side opening to an inner room. A desk and a chair in the middle. An hour-glass on a bracket near the door. A creepy stool near it. Some benches. The WISE MAN sitting at his desk.

      WISE MAN [Turning over the pages of a book]

      Where is that passage I am to explain to my pupils to-day? Here it is, and the book says that it was written by a beggar on the walls of Babylon: There are two living countries, the one visible and the one invisible; and when it is winter with us it is summer in that country; and when the November winds are up among us it is lambing-time there. I wish that my pupils had asked me to explain any other passage, for this is a hard passage.

      [The FOOL comes in

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