Showing posts with label W.B. Yeats. Show all posts
Showing posts with label W.B. Yeats. Show all posts
Monday, October 26, 2015

The Ghost Club

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Founded in London in 1862, the Ghost Club is the oldest paranormal investigation and research organization in the world. The organization...
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Tuesday, November 4, 2014

A Woman Called Horniman

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Annie Horniman William Butler Yeats was in his mid-twenties, living in London, had joined the Isis-Urania Temple of the Hermetic Order o...
Monday, January 20, 2014

The Weird Magic of 1890s Writers: Enochian Magic

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Practitioners of Enochian magic attempt to evoke the will of spirits or angels. As i wrote this post, I couldn't get the Black Crowes...
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Sunday, January 19, 2014

Maud Gonne as the New Speranza

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On 19 January 1892, W.B. Yeats published an article in the United Irishman, in which he compared the activist work of his beloved Maud Gonne...
Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Dancing Through Literature in the 1890s

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I’ve spent the past week struggling to write a scene in which my characters are dancing at a ball in 1890. Invariably, it comes off soun...
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Wednesday, December 25, 2013

100 Random Things about Oscar Wilde

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In honour of this being my 100th post, I’m sharing 100 things you probably didn’t know about Oscar Wilde. If you knew any of this stuff keep...
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Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Being Irish in Victorian London

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As a Canadian moving to Ohio, I've noticed there are an awful lot of Canadians in our neighbourhood, which, for me, begs the question: a...
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Monday, August 12, 2013

Degeneration, Decadence & Drink

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First published as Entartung (1892), Max Nordau’s major work was published in English as Degeneration in 1895. In Degeneration, Nordau tran...
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Saturday, May 11, 2013

The Most Valuable Poem in the World?

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This week a poem that Oscar Wilde wrote in college sold for almost €80,000. Aside from the bitter irony that, in the latter part of the ...
Wednesday, February 13, 2013

For Love and Ireland

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W.B. Yeats joined the Irish nationalist cause as much for his love of Maud Gonne, a beautiful young Irish feminist, as he did for his pol...
Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Not that Shakespeare!

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There's no denying the men's club aspect to the culture of writers in London, during the 1890s. Even the Bohemian arts movement excl...
Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn

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Interest in alternative spirituality and the occult peaked before the Second World War, but mysticism was already becoming popular in the la...
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