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    The Land of Heart's Desire
    The Land of Heart's Desire
    The Land of Heart's Desire
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    The Land of Heart's Desire

    By W B Yeats

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    William Butler Yeats was born near Dublin in 1865, and was encouraged from a young age to pursue a life in the arts. He attended art school for a short while, but soon found that his talents and interest lay in poetry rather than painting. He became an instrumental figure in the "Irish Literary Revival" of the 20th Century that redefined Irish writing. Early in life, Yeats developed a love for the green hills and lakes of Sligo, where he spent much of his early childhood. It became a figurative place he would revisit often in his literature. Features of Sligo appear throughout his 1894 play, "The Land of Heart's Desire", one of Yeats best and most well-known works. The play describes an encounter between a fairy child and newlyweds Shawn and Bridget Bruin, and explores themes of mysticism and the temporary nature of life. Yeats felt an internal struggle with the contradictions he felt in his nature and in life, and spent much of his life seeking out a philosophical system to resolve this conflict.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDigireads.com Publishing
    Release dateJan 1, 2011
    ISBN9781420921700
    The Land of Heart's Desire
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    W B Yeats

    William Butler Yeats was born in 1865 in County Dublin. With his much-loved early poems such as 'The Stolen Child', and 'He Remembers Forgotten Beauty', he defined the Celtic Twilight mood of the late-Victorian period and led the Irish Literary Renaissance. Yet his style evolved constantly, and he is acknowledged as a major figure in literary modernism and twentieth-century European letters. T. S. Eliot described him as 'one of those few whose history is the history of their own time, who are part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them'. W. B. Yeats died in 1939.

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      The Land of Heart's Desire - W B Yeats

      THE LAND OF HEART'S DESIRE

      BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

      A Digireads.com Book

      Digireads.com Publishing

      Print ISBN 13: 978-1-4209-4167-8

      Ebook ISBN 13: 978-1-4209-2170-0

      This edition copyright © 2011

      Please visit www.digireads.com

      CONTENTS

      PERSONS IN THE PLAY

      THE LAND OF HEART'S DESIRE

      PERSONS IN THE PLAY

      MAURTEEN BRUIN

      SHAWN BRUIN

      FATHER HART

      BRIDGET BRUIN

      MAIRE BRUIN

      A FAERY CHILD

      THE LAND OF HEART'S DESIRE

      [The scene is laid in the Barony of Kilmacowen in the county of Sligo, and at a remote time.]

      [A room with a hearth on the floor in the middle of a deep alcove to the Right. There are benches in the alcove and a table; and a crucifix on the wall. The alcove is full of a glow of light from the fire. There is an open door facing the audience to the Left, and to the left of this a bench. Through the door one can see the forest. It is night, but the moon or a late sunset glimmers through the trees and carries the eye far off into a vague, mysterious world. Maurteen Bruin, Shawn Bruin, and Bridget Bruin sit in the alcove at the table or about the fire. They are dressed in the costume of some remote time, and near them sits an old priest, Father Hart. He may be dressed as a friar. There is food and drink upon the

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