No man who deserts his own literature for another's can hope for the highest rank. The cradles of the greatest writers are rocked among the scenes they are to celebrate. Wherever an Irish writer has strayed away from Irish themes and Irish feelings, in almost all cases he has done no more than make alms for oblivion. There is no great literature without nationality, and no great nationality without literature.
— William Butler Yeats Modern

Irish poet

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Essay 'Browning' or similar, Boston Pilot

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1890

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Controversial

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