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1. Abbey Theatre -- William Butler Yeats
   Abbey Theatre is one of the two world's renowned theatres of The National Theatre. It is founded in 1904, by the poet William Butler Yeats, Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn. The theatre is placed on its original site at the corner of Abbey Street. The theatre rapidly achieved an insight on audiences with extraordinary plays such as The Playboy of The Western World by J M Synge, The Whiteheaded Boy by Lennox Robinson (1916), The Shadow of a Gunman (1923) and The Plough and the Stars by Sean O'Casey (1926) since the start of On Baile's Strand by W B Yeats,.
2. William Blake -- Life
   William Blake was one of England’s greatest poets. He combined both a lofty mysticism and an uncompromising awareness of the harsh realities of life. As a young boy he had a most revealing vision of seeing angels in the trees. These mystical visions returned throughout his life, leaving a profound mark on his poetry and outlook. William Blake was ... particularly sensitive to cruelty. His heart wept at the site of man’s inhumanity to other men and children.
3. Edgar Allen Poe -- Raven Society
   There are conflicting accounts surrounding the last days of Edgar Allan Poe and the cause of his death. Some say he died from alcoholism, some claim he was murdered, and various diseases have ... been attributed. Most say he was found unconscious in the street and admitted to the Washington College Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. He died soon after, on 7 October 1849, and was buried unceremoniously in an unmarked grave in the Old Westminster Burying Ground of Baltimore. On this original site now stands a stone with a carving of a raven and the inscription;
4. Symbolism in Literature -- Russian Symbolism
   Russian Symbolism had begun to lose its momentum in literature by the second decade of the twentieth century. Its major practitioners frequently conflicted in the pages of the journals Vesy, Zolotoe runo and Pereval. Others wrestled for control of key printing houses. Meanwhile, many younger poets were drawn to the Acmeist movement, which distanced itself from excesses of Symbolism. Others joined the ranks of the Futurists, an iconoclastic group which sought to recreate art entirely, eschewing all aesthetic conventions.
5. New Age Movement -- Spirits
   A weekly Journal of Christian liberalism and Socialism called The New Age was published as early as 1894. [7] In 1907 it was sold to a group of Socialist writers headed by Alfred Richard Orage and Holbrook Jackson. Other historical personalities were involved, including H. G. Wells, George Bernard Shaw, and William Butler Yeats; the magazine became a forum for politics, literature, and the arts. [8][9] Between 1908 and 1914 it was instrumental in pioneering the British avant-garde, from vorticism to imagism. After 1914, publisher Orage met P. D. Ouspensky, a follower of G. I. Gurdjieff, and began correspondence with Harry Houdini, becoming less interested in literature and art, and an increased focus on mysticism and other spiritual topics, and sold the magazine in 1921. According to Brown University, "The New Age helped to shape modernism in literature and the arts from 1907 to 1922". [10]
6. Symbolism in Literature -- Art
   Symbolism in literature is distinct from Symbolism in art although the two overlapped on a number of points. There were several, rather dissimilar, groups of Symbolist painters and visual artists, among whom Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Henri Fantin-Latour, Edvard Munch, F?licien Rops, and Jan Toorop were numbered. Symbolism in painting had an even larger geographical reach than Symbolism in poetry, reaching several Russian artists, as well as figures such as Elihu Vedder in the United States. Auguste Rodin is sometimes considered a Symbolist in sculpture.
7. Daughter -- Fathers
   This change won't come about merely be taking a teen-age daughter into the wilderness for a rite-of-passage, though it's never too late to start. It should begin by making a commitment to be involved from the start and make the care of your children as important as your work. It means working for a company that supports parental leave, not just in theory but in practice. It means taking a job that has the flexibility so that you can take off when your children need you and that allows, and encourages, ample time to be with them. It means letting the boss and people you work with know that you take fathering seriously and encourage other fathers to do the same. It means placing as much importance on your active involvement with daughters as you do with sons.
8. Abbey Theatre
   The Abbey Theatre is a product of the Irish cultural revival that began in the last decade of the 19th century and flourished until the 1920s. The revival was initiated largely by the Irish poet and dramatist William Butler Yeats, who urged Irish writers to draw their inspiration directly from Irish life and traditions rather than from English and European sources. In 1899 Yeats helped to establish the Irish Literary Theatre, reorganized in 1902 as the Irish National Theatre Society. With financial assistance provided by the English theater manager Annie Elizabeth Fredericka Horniman (1860-1937), the Irish National Theatre Society established in 1904 the repertory company that became known as the Abbey Theatre, which, since 1924, has received an annual government subsidy. The new group introduced realistic and poetic elements into the Irish theater and soon gained a popular following. Notable Irish dramatists whose works were presented at various times included Yeats, John Millington Synge, Lady Isabella Augusta Gregory, Æ (George William Russell), Padraic Colum, St. John Greer Ervine (1883-1971), and Sean O'Casey.
9. Symbolism -- Arts
   Symbolism is the systematic use of symbols to represent or allude to something. In the most literal sense, all language is symbolic. In a narrower sense, symbolism is the use of iconic figures with particular conventional meanings. Symbolism is an important element of most religions and the arts. Many cultures have complex symbolic systems which assign certain attributes to specific things, such as types of animals, plants or weather. Reading symbols ... plays an important role in psychoanalysis, especially as envisioned by Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.
10. Neopaganism
    Neopaganism or Neo-Paganism is any of a heterogeneous group of new religious movements, particularly those influenced by ancient, primarily pre-Christian and sometimes pre-Judaic religions. Often these are Indo-European in origin, but with a growing component inspired by other religions indigenous to Europe, as well as other parts of the world. As the name implies, these religions are Pagan in nature, though their exact relationship to older forms of Paganism is the source of much contention. Neopagan beliefs and practices are extremely diverse, and the term itself is rather amorphous. Some Neopagans practice a syncretic melding of various religious practices, folk customs, shamanism and ritual techniques deriving from an extremely wide array of disparate sources, while Reconstructionists attempt to remain historically authentic to varying degrees. Other Neopagans practice a spirituality that is entirely modern in origin.

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