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28 Jan: As Auden tells us,
"He disappeared in the dead of winter:
The brooks were frozen, the airports almost deserted, [...]
What instruments we have agree
The day of his death was a dark cold day."
W. B. #Yeats ; poet, dramatist, mystic, senator; died in Hôtel Idéal Séjour, in Menton, France #OTD aged 73. Buried in France, a body presumed to be his was moved to the churchyard of St Columba's Church, Drumcliff, County Sligo in September 1948.
DIB: https://www.dib.ie/biography/yeats-william-butler-a9160
"After Yeats’ death I bought for a Jesuit library some of his fine volumes of Classical texts and secondary literature in Greens bookshop in Kildare Street. I do not remember if Stephen MacKenna’s translation of Plotinus On Beauty, which Yeats used extensively in his discourses to duchesses in London, was among them."
Irish philosopher #JohnOMeara muses on the appeal of neoPlatonism to the Irish.
https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2013/05/01/neoplatonism-irish-omeara/
The philosophy of #Yeats: https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2013/06/13/yeats-self-and-anti-self/
Yeats esoteric, complex #PhilosophyOfHistory is explored on this website: https://www.yeatsvision.com/
"We have in Berkeley and in Burke a philosophy on which it is possible to base the whole life of a nation": from a speech given in 30 Nov. 1925 https://www.irishphilosophy.com/2015/06/13/yeats-literature-philosophy/