THE IRISH TIMES: Yeats collection should belong to the nation

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Last week, I was visited by a Chilean friend who had just returned from a trip home to his family. He brought me a souvenir, a tile engraved with the image of a fish and a compass, which he had bought at the Pablo Neruda House in Isla Negra, near Valparaiso. While there he had also taken a photograph looking out from Neruda’s desk at the beach and Pacific breakers, a sight which offered a clarifying sense of this poet who lived facing the elements.