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    The Hour Glass
    The Hour Glass
    The Hour Glass
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    The Hour Glass

    By W B Yeats

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    "The Hour Glass" by W. B. Yeats
    William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. This drama is a short-form study in faith and irony. Though written many years ago, the beginnings of the faith vs. science debate can be seen in its text. The book, in fact, follows Christians as they navigate a world where atheism is increasingly becoming the norm.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateDec 5, 2019
    ISBN4064066245948
    The Hour Glass
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    W B Yeats

    William Butler Yeats was born in 1865 in County Dublin. With his much-loved early poems such as 'The Stolen Child', and 'He Remembers Forgotten Beauty', he defined the Celtic Twilight mood of the late-Victorian period and led the Irish Literary Renaissance. Yet his style evolved constantly, and he is acknowledged as a major figure in literary modernism and twentieth-century European letters. T. S. Eliot described him as 'one of those few whose history is the history of their own time, who are part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them'. W. B. Yeats died in 1939.

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