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See also:YAZDEGERD (" made by See also:God," Izdegerdes) , the name of three See also:Sassanid See also:kings of See also:Persia. (I) YAZDEGERD I., son of See also:Shapur III., 399-420, called "the sinner" by the Persians, was a highly intelligent ruler, who tried to emancipate himself from the dominion of the magnates and the Magian priests. He punished the nobles severely when they attempted oppression; he stopped the persecution of the Christians and granted them their own organization. With the See also:Roman See also:Empire he lived in See also:peace and friendship, and is therefore as much praised by the See also:Byzantine authors (Procop. Pers. i. 2; Agath. iv. 26) as he is blamed by the Persians. After a reign of twenty years he appears to have been murdered in See also:Khorasan. (2) YAZDEGERD II., was the son of Bahram V. Gor, 438-457. He persecuted the Christians and See also:Jews, and had a See also:short See also:war with See also:Rome in 441. He tried to extend his See also:kingdom in the See also:East and fought against the Kushans and Kidarites (or See also:Huns). (3) YAZDEGERD III., a See also:grandson of See also:Chosroes II., who had been murdered by his son See also:Kavadh II. in 628, was raised to the See also:throne in 632 after a See also:series of See also:internal conflicts. He was a See also:mere See also:child and never really ruled; in his first See also:year the Arabic invasion began, and in 637 the See also:battle of Kadisiya decided the See also:fate of the empire. See also:Ctesiphon was occupied by the See also:Arabs, and the See also: B. Yeats (b. 1839), a distinguished Irish artist and member of the Royal Hibernian See also:Academy, was See also:born at Sandymount, See also:Dublin, on the 13th of June 1865. At nine years old he went to live with his parents in See also:London, and was sent to the See also:Godolphin School, See also:Hammersmith. At fifteen he went to the See also:Erasmus See also: With See also:Edwin J. See also:Ellis he edited the See also:Works of William See also:Blake (1893), and also edited A Book of Irish Verse (1895). In 1897 appeared The See also:Secret See also:Rose, a collection of Irish Iegends and tales in prose, with See also:poetry interspersed, containing the stories of Hanrahan the Red. The same year he printed privately The Tables of the See also:Law and the See also:Adoration of the Magi, afterwards published in a volume of Mr Elkin See also:Mathews's " See also:Vigo See also:Street See also:Cabinet " in 1904. In 1889 he published The See also:Wind among the Reeds, containing some of his best lyrics, and in 190o another poetical drama, The Shadowy See also:Waters. He now became specially interested in the See also:establishment of an Irish See also:literary theatre; and he founded and conducted an occasional periodical (appearing fitfully at irregular intervals), called first Beltain and later Samhain, to expound its aims and preach his own views, the first number appearing in May 1899. In the autumn of 1901 Mr F. R. See also:Benson's See also:company produced in London the See also:play Diarmuid and Grania, written in collaboration by him and See also:George See also:Moore. In 1902 he published his own first original play in prose, Cathleen ni Houlihan, which was printed in Samhain in See also:October that year. In 1903 he collected and published a volume of literary and See also:critical essays, to which he gave the title, Ideas of See also:Good and Evil. In the same and the following years he published a collected edition of his Plays for an Irish Theatre, comprising Where There is Nothing, The See also:Hour-See also:Glass, Cathleen ni Houlihan, The Pot of Broth, The King's See also:Threshold and On Baffle's Strand. In 1904 he also edited two volumes of Irish Representative Tales. Whether or not " Celtic " is the right word for it, Mr Yeats's See also:art was quickly identified by enthusiasts with the literary See also:side of the new Irish national movement. His See also:inspiration may he traced in some measure to the Pre-Raphaelites and also to Blake, See also:Shelley and See also:Maeterlinck; but he found in his native Irish See also:legend and See also:life See also:matter See also:apt for his romantic and often elfin See also:music, with its artful simplicities and unhackneyed cadences, and its elusive, inconclusive See also:charm. Seethe See also:section on W. B. Yeats in Poets of the Younger See also:Generation by William See also:Archer (1902), and for bibliography up to June 1903, English Illustrated See also:Magazine, vol. See also:xxix. (N.S.) p. 288. A library edition of his collected works in prose and verse was issued by Mr Bullen from the See also:Shakespeare See also:Head Works, See also:Stratford-on-See also:Avon, in 8 vols., 1go8. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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