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Melanie Bettinelli's avatar

I want to know who Landor and Irving and Talma are and Google isn't helping me figure it out. Any ideas?

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Diana Melrose's avatar

My guess is Walter Savage Landor (an English poet), Henry Irving and François-Joseph Talma (both actors). Perhaps Yeats tried to convey the immortality and even divinity of art, but that's just my interpretation of those allusions.

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Melanie Bettinelli's avatar

That makes sense. Thank you.

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