Early memories; some chapters of autobiographyYeats, John Butler
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Early memories; some chapters of autobiography
Yeats, John Butler
Authors, Irish -- 19th century -- Biography; Portrait painters -- Ireland -- Biography; Yeats, John Butler, 1839-1922
Now what would have happened had this man been born into conditions that
were not puritanical? It is my belief that he would have become a writer
of note and power. At school his education was backward. His commercial
family and he himself had attached no importance to things of the mind.
When I entered the university I implored him to remain on at school, and
prepare himself for Trinity College, and I remember that my father
became greatly interested, but _Dis aliter visum_--he entered his
father's office and began his dreary and uncongenial pilgrimage remote
from books & intellectual companionship.
Here ends 'EARLY MEMORIES: SOME CHAPTERS OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY JOHN BUTLER
YEATS.' Five hundred copies of this book have been printed and published
by Elizabeth C. Yeats at the Cuala Press, Churchtown, Dundrum, in the
County of Dublin Ireland. Finished in the last week of July nineteen
hundred and twenty three, the second year of THE IRISH FREE STATE.
End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Early memories; some chapters of
autobiography, by John Butler Yeats
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