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A volume on tradition and influence in Anglo-Irish poetry must begin, obviously, inevitably with Yeats — Yeats who created/invented an Irish poetic tradition, Yeats who in his magisterial presence remains an influence that Irish poets must absorb, reject, re-create or ignore as best they can. Three Yeatsian tags, three much-quoted quotations, may stand as markers for the territory.
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© 1989 Terence Brown and Nicholas Grene
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Brown, T., Grene, N. (1989). Introduction. In: Brown, T., Grene, N. (eds) Tradition and Influence in Anglo-Irish Poetry. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09470-7_1
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