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  1. Reprinted in The Permanence of Yeats, James Hall and Martin Steinmann (eds) (New York: Collier Books, 1961) pp. 9–13.

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  2. John Masefield, Some Memories of W. B. Yeats (New York: Macmillan, 1040) p. 10; So Long to Learn (London: Heinemann, 1952) p. 127; Recent Prose (London: Heinemann, 1924) p. 181.

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  5. See Marsh, pp. 207, 211, 228. For Yeats’s attitude to King George V see “Cracked Mary’s Vision” of 1929, printed in Richard Ellmann’s The Identity of Yeats (London: Faber & Faber, 1944) 101–2; and “Crazy Jane on the Mountain”, [VP 628].

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  6. Three poems by Stephens appeared in Georgian Poetry, 1911–1912 (London: Poetry Bookshop, 1912), the first volume of the series. His suggestion that Seamus O’Sullivan also be invited to contribute was not taken [Marsh p. 197].

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Sidnell, M.J. (1985). Yeats, Synge and the Georgians. In: Gould, W. (eds) Yeats Annual No. 3. Yeats Annual. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06206-5_6

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