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“The Irish love what they see to be right, and the English hate it”, Yeats remarked to the artist Charles Ricketts.1 So impressed was Ricketts by this observation, which echoed his own feelings about some aspects of English life, that he invited the Irish poet to dine with him and his friend, Charles Shannon.
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Notes
Joseph Hone, W. B. Yeats: 1865–1939 (London: Macmillan, 1942) p. 179.
B. L. Reid, The Man From New York: John Quinn and his Friends (New York: Oxford University Press, 1968) p. 36.
T. R. Henn, The Lonely Tower: Studies in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats (London: Methuen, 1965) p. 252.
Liam Miller, The Noble Drama of W.B. Yeats (Dublin: The Dolmen Press, 1977) p. 182.
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Delaney, J.G.P. (1986). “Heirs of the Great Generation” Yeats’s Friendship with Charles Ricketts and Charles Shannon. In: Gould, W. (eds) Yeats Annual No. 4. Yeats Annual. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06838-8_4
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