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Yeatsian, a. (n.)|ˈjeɪtsɪən|
Also Yeatsean.
[f. the name of the Irish poet and playwright William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) + -ian.]
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Yeats or his writing. Also as n., an admirer of Yeats.
1928S. O'Casey Let. 5 June (1975) I. 261 Since Mr. Yeats has..shouted a lot of things in at O'Casey's window, he shouldn't be surprised,..when he finds O'Casey hammering at the Yeatsian door. 1941Scrutiny IX. 381 Mr. MacNeice does attempt to define the essence of the Yeatsian idiom. 1954N. & Q. CXCIX. 535/2 Yeatsians are doubtless all familiar with Dr. Jeffares' story of the composition of ‘The Wheel’ at Euston on 17 September 1921. 1959Encounter Nov. 78/2 The misguided Neo-Platonism of some Yeatsians. 1969Listener 13 Mar. 361/2 Though Reisz can give us a Yeatsian despair (‘Ah dancer, ah, sweet dancer’), he fails to evoke a Yeatsian gaiety. 1978Studies in Eng. Lit.: Eng. Number (Tokyo) 157 Through his long poetic career, he changed from his early Yeatsean stance to his later self-assurance. 1982J. Gross in A. Thwaite Larkin at Sixty 86 Larkinesque irony..and high Yeatsian romance. |