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His was, as he saw it, a continuous poetic journey, aided here and there by slaves or muses--Arthur Symons, the symbolist who introduced him to the poetry of Paul Verlaine and Stéphane Mallarmé in the 1890s; Maud Gonne, who made Irish nationalism romantic; Lady Augusta Gregory, an Irish Protestant aristocrat who collaborated with Yeats in his search of old Irish folklore and legends; and Ezra Pound, who stiffened Yeats' soft "Celtic" verse with a little modernist geometry.
Now, critics declare him a cerebral modernist who eschewed convention: He used "a nineteenth-century vocabulary but speaks with a twentieth-century voice" (Alex Ross, The New Yorker ). The revisionists rate him one of the century's great composers.
The flag was the outcome of a standard modernist ritual of self-launching.
The Bauhaus design school introduced the idea that good design could be had by anyone; in the 1950s the Bauhaus aesthetic led to the American manufacture of such modernist (but still too pricey) classics as Charles Eames' lounge chair and ottoman and Arne Jacobsen's Egg Chair.
An earlier trombone cadenza was a modernist echo of the ram's-horn blast that ushers in the Jewish New Year.