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A Dream of Beauty and Power

on BBC Radio 3

If we would find a company of our own way of thinking, we must go backwar to turreted walls, to Courts, to high rocky places, to little walled towns, to all those who understood that life is not lived, if not lived for contemplation or excitement.
W. B. YEATS
Professor Denis Donoghue , who holds the Henry James Chair of Letters at New York University, examines the influence of Renaissance Italian art, sculpture and politics upon
Yeats's development both as a poet and as a public man. With and Producer
ROSEMARY HART

Contributors

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W. B. Yeats
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Professor Denis Donoghue
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Henry James Chair
Producer:
Rosemary Hart
W. B. Yeats:
Denys Hawthorne
Lady Gregory:
Kate Binchy

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