critical analysis of A Prayer for my Daughter

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Summary of A Prayer for my Daughter

A Prayer for my Daughter Introduction “A Prayer for my Daughter” is a 1919 poem by William Butler Yeats that was included in Yeats’ collection Michael Robartes and the Dancer in 1921. It is addressed to Anne, his daughter with Georgie Hyde Lees, whom Yeats married following the rejection of Read more…

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