William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) was an Irish poet and dramatist and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. He was a driving force behind the
Irish Literary Revival, and together with Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn founded the
Abbey Theatre and served as its chief playwright during its early years. Yeats was a pillar of the Irish literary establishment and was an Irish Senator for two terms. In 1923, he was awarded the
Nobel Prize in Literature for what the Nobel Committee described as "his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation"
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A reporter comes to Gatsby's home one day trying to learn about him since Gatsby has become a sort of celebrity. He asks questions about many of the myths surrounding Gatsby, but Nick gives us the truest account of Gatsby's life.
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Nick invites Daisy to tea and tells her not to bring Tom. Shortly after Daisy arrives there is a knocking at the door and Gatsby walks in. He and Daisy look at one another in awkward surprise ...
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Closing Jazz Score:
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Raymond Scott Quintette
Spunky Monkey Music
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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature. He was the man who "seemed to pick the right word up on the point of his pen, like a man playing
spillikins", as
G. K. Chesterton put it. Most modernist writers dismissed him, however, because he was popular and did not write within their narrow definition of literature. It is only recently that critics have begun to look beyond Stevenson's popularity and allow him a place in the canon.
He was born in Edinburgh, but was not over-fond of the city named "Auld Reekie." The author of such classics as
Treasure Island and
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde far preferred the wide open spaces, such as the Highlands, far way from the town that exacerbated his ill health.
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Scores of people visited the great house that summer of 1922, but for Gatsby it was only about Daisy.
Nick and Tom Buchanan take the train to New York City and get together with Mrs. Wilson.
