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- ↑ "September 1913 Analysis William Butler Yeats : Summary Explanation Meaning Overview Essay Writing Critique Peer Review Literary Criticism Synopsis Online Education". www.eliteskills.com.
- ↑ George Bornstein, "Yeats and Romanticism," The Cambridge Companion to W.B. Yeats, 27. Edited by Marjorie Howes and John Kelly. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- 1 2 George Bornstein, "Yeats and Romanticism," 27.
- 1 2 George Bornstein, "Yeats and Romanticism," 28.
- ↑ Adele M dalsimer, "By the Irish Political Ballad, Colby Library Quarterly, 12,1 March 1976, p38) http://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/1479
This article incorporates text from September 1913, by W. B. Yeats, a publication from 1913, now in the public domain in the United States.