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In January, 1919, I went to Oxford. That seems about the shortest way of relating a fact that is of singularly little interest to anybody but myself. What is of interest is that Oxford, at that time, was a regular nest of famous singing birds gathered together in the aftermath of the War, choosing Oxford as a sheltered resting-place, as though their wings were a little weary and their feathers rather draggled.
Extracted from Twenty-Five; Being a Young Man’s Candid Recollections of His Elders and Betters (London: Jonathan Cape, 1926) pp. 36–44.
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Nichols, B. (1977). Yeats at Oxford. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) W. B. Yeats. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02992-1_41
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