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If he was a dreamer his dream was not the self-indulgent illusion of the romancer who pins butterfly wings to lizards’ backs to turn them into dragons, tricks out with extravagant tinsel a mirage of ancient or distant lands and is afraid to wake up.
Extracted from ‘Without the Twilight’, Scattering Branches, ed. Stephen Gwynn (London: Macmillan, 1940) pp. 135–44.
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Edmund Dulac (1882–1953), British (naturalised) artist, illustrator and stage designer. He designed the masks and costumes for Yeats’s At the Hawk’s Well. In January 1918 Yeats asked him to cut a medieval-looking woodcut of Giraldus Cambrensis, which would really be a portrait of Yeats, and later used this as a frontispiece for A Vision.
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Dulac, E. (1977). Without the Twilight. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) W. B. Yeats. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02995-2_25
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