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That is the epitaph that Poet William Butler Yeats wrote for himself, and, according to his careful directions ("No marble, no conventional phrase"), it is engraved on his simple tomb in the churchyard of Drumcliff, in the poet's native Sligo. But ever since his death in 1939, his admirers have refused to cast a cold eye on his memory. Last month an American economist, John J. Kelly, remarked at a Dublin dinner party that he would subscribe $1,400 towards a Yeats memorial if Ireland would put up an equal sum. Ireland's men of letters soon...
...Walpole, with whom he was again on friendly terms, secretly sent one of them to a publisher, who decided to publish it. Gray was horrified. How, he asked, could he "escape the Honour they would inflict upon me?" But he faced up to it. Elegy in a Country Churchyard (which probably contains more familiar phrases than any other poem of its length in the language*) was published and later appeared in an illustrated edition with its five fellows under the discreet title: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley/ for six Poems by/ Mr. T. Gray...
...Anglican priests. When John began to ordain ne Methodist ministers himself, Charles, who wanted only to reform the Church of England from within, strongly opposed him. Charles was such a thoroughgoing Anglican that, before he died, he announced his refusal to be buried in his Methodist brother's churchyard...
...little trouble with the glass when a 2,000 pound German blockbuster landed in the churchyard during the last war," Cuttell remarked ruefully. However the window was restored and rededicated October...
Shaw takes the visitor on a 59-picture tour of Ayot (rhymes, according to Shaw, with say it). Beginning at his own gateway, over which the local blacksmith has wrought an iron notice, "Shaw's Corner," he moves on to the churchyard which first drew him to Ayot. Two world wars have intervened and he notes another tombstone...