Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.

W.B. Yeats

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Topic

Adventure

Speaker

Maire Bruin

Author

W.B. Yeats

Source

The Land of Heart's Desire

Medium

Play

Language

English

Time

1894 1890s 19th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

Ireland Europe

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Original Citation

Yeats, William Butler. The Land of Heart's Desire. 1894, Avenue Theatre, London, England, UK.

Current Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "The Land of Heart's Desire." Yeats's Poetry, Drama and Prose. W. W. Norton & Company, 2000.

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Medium
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Time
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Yeats, William Butler. "The Second Coming." The Dial, Nov. 1920.

Current Citation

Yeats, William Butler. "The Second Coming." W. B. Yeats: The Major Works, edited by Edward Larrissy. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind.

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Source
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Genre
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Language
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Time
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Original Citation

Freud, Sigmund. Die Traumdeutung [The Interpretation of Dreams]. Leipzig und Wien: Franz Deuticke, 1900, ch. 7, sect. E.

Current Citation

Freud, Sigmund. The Interpretation of Dreams, translated and edited by James Strachey. Basic Books, 2010, ch. 7, sect. E.