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I’ve had quite a number of meetings with Yeats in Dublin, in Paris, in London, and in Kentucky. Of course, I had met him many times with other people, and of course, those kind-of meetings don’t count anyway. In his latter years whenever he came to London he formed a habit of ringing me up and asking me to go and see him. I always took a ring from another poet as a kind of royal command. And I always remembered that telephoning was one of the many things which Yeats didn’t do very well.
Extracted from ‘W. B. Yeats (1942)’, James, Seumas & Jacques: Unpublished Writings of James Stephens, chosen and ed. with an introduction by Lloyd Frankenberg (London: Macmillan, 1964) pp. 67–72.
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Michael Butler (now Senator) Yeats (1921- ).
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Stephens, J. (1977). W. B. Yeats. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) W. B. Yeats. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-02995-2_28
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