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This series of poems was written between 1926 and 1929; the ‘woman speaks first in youth, then in age’ (WBY 374). They are, to a certain extent, companion poems to those of A Man Young and Old, in The Tower, which were written in 1926 or 1927.
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© 1968 A. Norman Jeffares
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Jeffares, A.N. (1968). A Woman Young and Old. In: A Commentary on the Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00163-7_12
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