Word: kelmscott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Branching Out. In London, as an art student, Yeats began to hear professorial excitement over the vowel sounds ("I scarcely knew what a vowel was") in his Innisfree. He talked to Shaw and Kropotkin and William Morris at Kelmscott House; to Arthur Symons and Lionel Johnson and Ernest Dowson and Edmund Dulac-the "tragic generation" of the fin-de-siècle-at the Rhymers' Club; to John Todhunter and the intense young clerks of the Southwark Irish Society...