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“What is the explanation of it all?” is a quatrain which Yeats never published. The manuscript was included as lot 51 in the sale of the estate of Hannah Gluck, also known as Hannah Gluckstein and Helen Gluck, of The Chantry House, Steyning, West Sussex, who inherited the effects of Edith Shackleton Heald (1885–1976). The sale was held at Christie’s, London, on 5 July 1978. The MS. is now in my collection, and a photograph of it appears as Plate 9.
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Gould, W. (1987). “What is the explanation of it all?”: Yeats’s “little poem about nothing”. In: Gould, W. (eds) Yeats Annual No. 5. Yeats Annual. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06841-8_16
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