Rhymers

Reversal: In Elfhame, "Rhymers" (humans and mixed-bloods) come out of the closet.

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Five Thomas Rhymers (counting ones who give their names as Tommy), one older listing, one non-published listing.

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We Rhymers did not humour and cajole; but it was not wholly from demerit, it was in part because of different merit, that he refused our exile.

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

The Rhymers had begun to break up in tragedy, though we did not know that till the play had finished.

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

A young Irish poet,96 who wrote excellently but had the worst manners, was to say a few years later, ‘You do not talk like a poet, you talk like a man of letters’, and if all the Rhymers had not been polite, if most of them had not been to Oxford or Cambridge, the greater number would have said the same thing.

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

He, indeed, was accustomed, in the most characteristic phrase of his type, to describe the Rhymers as lacking in ‘blood and guts’, and very nearly brought us to an end by attempting to supply the deficiency by the addition of four Scotsmen.

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

The Book of the Rhymers Club London: Mathews, 1892 included the Johnson and Dowson poems.

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

He was older by ten years than his fellow Rhymers; a National schoolmaster from Scotland, he had been dismissed, he told us, for asking for a rise in his salary, and had come to London with his wife and children.

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

A young Irish poet,96 who wrote excellently but had the worst manners, was to say a few years later, ‘You do not talk like a poet, you talk like a man of letters’, and if all the Rhymers had not been polite, if most of them had not been to Oxford or Cambridge, the greater number would have said the same thing.

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

I had tried this conviction on the Rhymers, thereby plunging into greater silence an already too-silent evening.

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