/lit/ - Literature

He was hilarious in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.
Plays a pretty mean banjo, too.

The symbolists and expressionists were all into that shit. It was the era. Late 19th century types were all looking for new paradigms, and while philosophers, theologians, and quacks were melding together to come up with shit like theosophy and spiritism, artists were using them for inspiration. This is the era in which Proust and Debussy took deliberate inspiration from fucking "psychophysical" theories about fundamental numerical patterns to create experimental artwork. When people weren't doing dumb shit like that, they were trying to fuzz the boundaries between aridly rational, plebeian/democratic modernity and darker twilit realms full of spirits and dionysian mysteries.

>>11447470
> Yeats
> late 19th century types

wtf. get a clue nerd! embarrassing!!

>>11447420
His oneitis kept rejecting him so he developed a "I didn't want mundane things anyway" kind of attitude.

>>11447501
I feel that

>>11447420
He was a deeply traditional man- a fascist, a mystic, a poet, etc. He mostly wanted to restore Ireland to its former glory before the anglos erased and debased their culture. He's the Irish Evola, in my opinion, except more poetically oriented.

>>11447420
I think he was mostly a reaction against the modern world and against the debasing anglo element pervading his country.

>>11447517
>He's the Irish Evola
How pleb can this board get?

>>11447477
yeats was born in 1865