Cross-roads

‘I should add that it’s about as safe as playing chuck-farthing at the Loos Cross-roads, the day you and I went in.

Greenmantle 2005

Two plays last night, Time, a play of suggestion, Cross-roads, a logical play.31 We accepted this last play because of its central idea, a seeming superstition of its creator, a promise of a new attitude towards life, of something beyond logic.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

In the four morning papers Time is cursed or ignored and Cross-roads given great praise, but praise that is never for the central idea, and the only critic who speaks of that idea misunderstands it completely.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

Two plays last night, Time, a play of suggestion, Cross-roads, a logical play.31 We accepted this last play because of its central idea, a seeming superstition of its creator, a promise of a new attitude towards life, of something beyond logic.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

In the original version, WBY described Time as ‘a fantasy, a little noble, a little profound, and full of suggestion’, while The Cross-roads was ‘a logical work without suggestion or nobility’ ‘Journal’, no.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

In the original version, WBY described Time as ‘a fantasy, a little noble, a little profound, and full of suggestion’, while The Cross-roads was ‘a logical work without suggestion or nobility’ ‘Journal’, no.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

Two plays last night, Time, a play of suggestion, Cross-roads, a logical play.31 We accepted this last play because of its central idea, a seeming superstition of its creator, a promise of a new attitude towards life, of something beyond logic.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

In the four morning papers Time is cursed or ignored and Cross-roads given great praise, but praise that is never for the central idea, and the only critic who speaks of that idea misunderstands it completely.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

In the four morning papers Time is cursed or ignored and Cross-roads given great praise, but praise that is never for the central idea, and the only critic who speaks of that idea misunderstands it completely.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965

In the original version, WBY described Time as ‘a fantasy, a little noble, a little profound, and full of suggestion’, while The Cross-roads was ‘a logical work without suggestion or nobility’ ‘Journal’, no.

Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965