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This is on a par with the attribution of leave me be to a Celtic origin having something to do with a warning against raiding hives or the ascription of the origin of the name of an obscene prosthetic device to a woman from Water Isle (the Duchess d'Île d'eau ).
Essentially, he proposes that the parent of all Indo-European languages was itself born in central Anatolia, whence it spread eastward, westward, and northward, being modified by the influences of the languages with which it came into contact, till it ultimately emerged in its recognizable, modern manifestations which we categorize into Germanic, Hellenic, Italic, Indo-Iranian, Anatolian, Armenian, Celtic, Tocharian, Albanian, and BaltoSlavic.
Yeats effectively shut down his Celtic dream world in 1914 with the starker, more acute verse of Responsibilities . He let the realities of Ireland's civil war invade and occupy his poetic world.
The term Indo-European cropped up first at the beginning of the 19th century; as much of the work was being done in Germany, it is not surprising that the term preferred there was Indo-Germanic , actually a translation of indogermanisch (with a small i because it is an adjective), which arose in the late 1820s; the latter survives in the literature, largely replaced by the former, especially since the discovery that Celtic is a member of the family.
A faith in magic, in the spirit world, became his aesthetic: He denounced naturalism, fought George Bernard Shaw's "mechanistic" vision (he once had a dream in which Shaw appeared, clicking like a sewing-machine and smiling insanely), and proposed a poetry of dream and Celtic twilight that would shun the hustle of the world.
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