Yeats, The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Later Essays, vol. 5, ed. William H. O’Donnell (New York: Scribner, 1994), p. 204.

7. Quoted in A. Norman Jeffares, W. B. Yeats: The Critical Heritage (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977), pp. 80–81.

8. Yeats, Essays and Introductions (New York: Macmillan, 1968), p. 28.

9. Yeats, Uncollected Prose, vol. 1, ed. John P. Frayne (New York: Columbia University Press, 1970), p. 284.

10. Ibid., p. 255.

11. Quoted in Stephen Watt, “Late Nineteenth-Century Irish Theatre,” The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama, ed. Shaun Richards (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), p. 19.

12. Yeats, Uncollected Prose, pp. 322–23.

13. Yeats, Autobiographies, pp. 119–20.

14. See “A Note on the Text” regarding the spelling of Eri and Eire.

15. Quoted in James Fenton, “A Voice of His Own,” The Guardian, February 2, 2007.

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