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“When You Are Old” is a poem which encloses a book which encloses that poem. Whereas Ronsard had implored his mistress,
Quand vous serez bien vieille, au soir à la chandelle,
Assise auprès du feu, devident et filant,
Direz chantant mes vers, en vous esmerveillant:
“Ronsard me celebroit du temps que j’estois belle.”1
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Peter L. Caracciolo (ed.), The “Arabian Nights” in English Literature: Studies in the Reception of “The Thousand and One Nights” into British Culture (London: Macmillan, 1988) pp. 244–80,
John Harwood, Olivia Shakespear and W. B. Yeats: After Long Silence (London: Macmillan, 1989) pp. 59–82.
Jerome J. McGann, Textual Condition (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1991) p. 60.
George Bornstein and Ralph G. Williams (eds), Palimpsest: Editorial Theory in the Humanities (Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Press, 1993) pp. 167–93 at p. 189;
George Bornstein (ed.), The Early Poetry, vol.ii: Manuscript Materials, by W. B. Yeats (Ithaca, N.Y., and London: Cornell University Press, 1994).
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Gould, W., Toomey, D. (1995). “Take Down This Book”: The Flame of the Spirit, Text and Context. In: Gould, W. (eds) Yeats Annual No. 11. Yeats Annuals. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23757-9_8
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