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‘In spite of myself’, Yeats wrote in March 1909, ‘my mind dwells more and more on ideas of class.’ 1 After the Playboy crisis of January 1907, he began to analyze his political opponents in social terms. O’Brien explains Yeats’s interest in class as snobbery, defined as ‘abhorring the multitude’.2 Such a judgment, however, ignores the genesis and complexity of Yeats’s social attitudes.
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© 1981 Elizabeth Cullingford
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Cullingford, E. (1981). Ideas of Class. In: Yeats, Ireland and Fascism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04546-4_5
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