Word: irish
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...said it, he stops. It is to be hoped that our voluminous undergraduate critics will profit by his example as well as his advice. "When I was a Duke," a story by D. W. Streeter, scarcely smacks of the British nobility, yet it sets forth an amusing situation in Irish language. A good natured, Chinese cook who artistically stabs a man between sips of tea, is well described by W. F. Boericke, under the title of "Wing." "A Sea Change," is interesting on account of its land-lubber usage of yachting terms, and occasionally provokes a smile in spite...
...Waller and Cowley and Dryden sit with the other guests. Did they make Milton, perhaps, recite some verses which describe the successes of an angelic host; did the poets, perhaps, press their host to compare for them the Connecticut against the Thames, or the Pequods against the wild Irish of their...
Under the auspices of the English Department, Mr. W. B. Yeats, the Irish poet, will speak in the New Lecture Hall this evening at 8 o'clock , on "Poetry in the Old Time and the New." Mr. Yeats, who is touring this country under the management of the Irish Literary Society of New York, is a well-known writer of poetry and prose. Hem is the editor of several collections of fairy and folk tales and is an accomplished playwright. He was one of the chief organizers of the Irish Literary Theatre, and is the president of the organization which...
...Yeats's works include among many others: "The Wanderings of Oisin;" "The Wind Among the Reeds;" "The Shadowy Waters;" "In the Seven Woods;" "The Celtic Twilight;" "The Secret Rose;" "Plays for an Irish Theatre;" and "Ideals of Good and Evil." His "Land of Heart's Desire" was produced two years ago in Boston and attracted considerable attention...
...Yeats, the Irish poet, will lecture in the New Lecture Hall, Tuesday evening, December 1, at 8 o'clock, on "Poetry in the Old Time and the New." The lecture will be given under the auspices of the English Department. Mr. Yeats is touring the country under the management of the Irish Literary Society of New York...