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I was to dine with him at seven o’clock in the evening of November the 5th, 1900.
Extracted from Some Memories of W. B. Yeats (London: Macmillan, 1940) pp. 8–14.
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Villiers de l’Isle-Adam (1838–89), French writer and the reputed originator of the Symbolist school in French literature. The only great prose in modern English for Yeats, as for other members of the Rhymers’ Club, was Pater’s, and The Secret Rose (1897) is Pater’s style subdued to the matter of Villiers de l’Isle-Adam. See A. M. Killen, ‘Some French influences in the Works of W. B. Yeats at the End of the Nineteenth Century’, Comparative Literature Studies, VIII (1942) 1–8.
In 1894 Yeats made his first visit to Paris, where he visited Verlaine with Arthur Symons. For a description of this visit see V. P. Underwood, Verlaine et l’Angleterre (Paris: Librairie Nizet, 1956) pp. 463–4.
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Masefield, J. (1977). My First Meeting with Yeats. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) W. B. Yeats. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02992-1_15
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