Epiphanies: Yeats, Eliot, Gunn

Magical Journeys

Holidays involve and engender a certain curious magic, based on their religious or patriotic origins, certainly, but also on the fact that they recur, year after year, decade after decade, throughout our lifetimes. Each return of a special day in the calendar activates memories of earlier celebrations and the year when they occurred. Holidays, then, are…