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Muses, the

plural noun (Greek myth) goddesses of poetry, Camenae (Roman myth), Pierides (Greek myth)

Muses

Calliopeepic poetry Cliohistory Eratolove poetry Euterpelyric poetry and music Melpomenetragedy Polyhymniasinging, mime, and sacred dance Terpsichoredance and choral song Thaliacomedy and pastoral poetry Uraniaastronomy

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Yeats an the Muses is a study of the nine women who served as Yeats's muses, the women whom Hassett describes as "the primary source of emotion from which he fashioned his poetry": Olivia Shakespear, Florence Farr, Maude Gonne, Iseult Gonne, George Yeats, Margot Ruddock, Ethel Mannin, Dorothy Wellsley and Edith Shackleton Heald.

Musing on Yeats's muses

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