Abstract
After six years in Dublin, the Yeats family in 1887 moved back to London, where Mrs Yeats had the first of her strokes and the members of the family had to be distributed among relatives. In the following year they settled again in Bedford Park. Only John Butler Yeats enjoyed the idea of the move; as usual, he thought that his prospects would be better elsewhere. The Dublin they were leaving was, despite James Joyce’s analysis of it as a centre of paralysis, a place of considerable intellectual activity, where eccentricity in behaviour and language was tolerated or even encouraged and where a new talent could make itself known. Granted that Joyce’s first story found publication in the farmers’ journal, The Irish Homestead, and that his shame at appearing in what he called the ‘pig’s paper’ necessitated a pseudonym (‘Stephen Daedalus’), his major work went on to use and rework innumerable elements of Dublin as he had known it around the turn of the century.KeywordsLiterary LifeEnglish TraditionSacred BookPsychic ExperimentSymbolist MovementThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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