And Raine really does have the Yeatsian skill of mythologising his own story against a no-less mythologised picture of his own times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2004-03-01] Reference

But if it doesn't, and a Yeatsian anarchy continues to be loosed upon the financial system, investors should expect some drastic responses from the government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stemming the Crimson Tide] Reference

Still, regardless of your political persuasion, it's been hard to escape that Yeatsian "things falling apart" feeling over the last couple of years, hasn't it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Posterity is just around the corner] Reference

Also, interestingly, this is a very Yeatsian exercise: nobody was more into talking endlessly about how he thought the universe worked on a spiritual level than WB.    From Wordnik.com.  [it's almost finals -- commence to procrastinating!] Reference

She was instrumental in modernizing the highly reputed but old-fashioned theater, which had been languishing in a moribund Yeatsian naturalistic theatrical language.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tanya Moiseiwitsch.] Reference

I was talking about a certain tradition in Yeatsian criticism which ascribes to Yeats the habit of imagination which sees each object "only for the sake of what it answers to in him, not for what it is in itself.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Yeats's Vision] Reference

But there was an often unhappy disjunction between his explosive subject, as yet relatively new in English poetry, and his harmonious pentameters, his lyrical allusions, his stately rhymes, his Yeatsian meditations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poet of Two Worlds] Reference

Despite its Yeatsian title, The Center Cannot Hold, Saks 'memoir calls to mind the poetry of the Romantics more than it does a tale about an apocalyptic time when "the best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert David Jaffee: Elyn Saks: Recovery Of A Genius] Reference

There'll be no Yeatsian madness for Seamus Famous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Actually, these two help to demonstrate the range and flexibility of terza rima; the Auden is bordering on light verse while the Ransom is seriously Yeatsian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culture | guardian.co.uk] Reference

Thomas Hardy's poems had, by now, cured him of his Yeatsian "fever", and showed him the possibilities of colloquial directness, of his own commonplace experience and idiom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top stories from Times Online] Reference

The unassuming Obamas were so ordinary they were edited out of a 1996 book entitled Couples in America, writes Lara Marlowe in Paris Appropriately enough, Richard Fitzpatrick finds a thriving equestrian club in a college and area with a proud equine history Born 150 years ago this month, Puccini lived a life as full and raucous as his shrewdly crafted, soaringly beautiful and ever-popular operas, writes Eileen Battersby With 'shamswastikas' instead of misty Yeatsian imagery, Irish shows in New York this year punctured critics preconceptions, writes Belinda McKeon Despite battling Alzheimer's, Terry Pratchett is still as sparky and mischievous as his books would suggest Research shows that children who eat breakfast do better at school, writes Sheila Wayman The financial downturn means that charity funds are drying up just as they come under even greater pressure to protect the most vulnerable.    From Wordnik.com.  [ireland.com Breaking News] Reference

And here are a few Yeatsian links.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Monday Quickie « So Many Books] Reference

But Yeatsian idiom shapes the dialogue too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top stories from Times Online]

02.12 Yeatsian Words, from 'Selected Criticism'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irish Blogs] Reference