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The Rose of Battle

poem by W. B. Yeats

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2024
Entity authorityQ7761555 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Rose of Battle is a poem by William Butler Yeats, from his second poetry collection: The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics (1892).

Popular culture

The title of Libba Bray's novel The Sweet Far Thing comes from a line in The Rose of Battle.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “The Rose of Battle” as poem by W. B. Yeats. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Rose, Battle and poem.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1892—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Rose, Battle and poem providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “The Rose of Battle”, the useful work is to connect “poem by W. B. Yeats” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q7761555. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1892.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Tracing reception history
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The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “The Rose of Battle”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow The Rose of Battle primary sources, The Rose of Battle archive and Rose research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “The Rose of Battle”?
  2. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
  3. How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?
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This entry incorporates text from “The Rose of Battle” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.