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White River Gardens is a botanical garden located at White River State Park in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States. [4] Established in 1999, the gardens are managed and operated by the Indianapolis Zoo. [2] In 2021, White River Gardens' 3.3 acres (1.3 ha) was home to nearly 50,000 plants of more than 3,000 species. [3]
Near this tower, in Coole Park, began the Irish Literary Revival. [ 5 ] Thoor Ballylee is also known today as Yeats's Tower , because in 1916 (or 1917) Yeats purchased the property for the nominal sum of £35 because he was so enchanted with it and especially as it was located in a rural area. [ 6 ]
William Butler Yeats [a] (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature.He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with Lady Gregory founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years.
The Encyclopedia of Indianapolis. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. pp. 1076– 1080. ISBN 0-253-31222-1. "Garfield Park". National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. 2011 "George Edward Kessler and the Park System". National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior.
Yeats changed the poem's title from "To a friend who has asked me to sign his manifesto to the neutral nations" to "A Reason for Keeping Silent" before sending it in a letter to James, which Yeats wrote at Coole Park on 20 August 1915. The poem was prefaced with a note stating: "It is the only thing I have written of the war or will write, so I ...
This list of botanical gardens and arboretums in Indiana is intended to include all ... Mesker Park Zoo and Botanic Garden: ... White River Gardens: Indianapolis Zoo:
Woodland path at Coole Park. The park was formerly the estate of the Gregory family. Coole House was built in the late 18th century for Robert Gregory: a three-storey house with a square porch and as principal rooms a dining room and drawing-room with bay windows facing out to Coole Lough and the Burren Hills, and a library in between them.
The Wild Swans at Coole is the name of two collections of poetry by W. B. Yeats, published in 1917 and 1919.