SOURCE: "Children in the Poetry of Yeats," in The Dalhousie Review, Vol. 50, No. 2, Summer 1970, pp. 233-48.
In the following excerpt, Pacey discusses the evolution of Yeats's allusions to children from those of a Romantic modified by touches of "irony" and "humour" to those of a realist who recognized that children are not ideal creatures but are in fact human beings with bad as well as good traits.
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