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- Disputed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Few in the Nineties would have ventured to prophesy that the remote dim singer of the Celtic Twilight would, in a new age, become the leading poet of the English-speaking world. None have disputed the claim of William Butler Yeats to that title.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yeats regarded his work as the close of an epoch, and the least of his later lyrics brings the sense of a great occasion. English critics have tried to claim him for their tradition, but, heard closely, his later music has that tremulous lyrical undertone which can be found in the Anglo-Irish eloquence of the eighteenth century.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first discovered for myself the Celtic Twilight and read the earlier poems of Yeats and others, all was entirely incomprehensible to me. I groped through a mist of blurred meanings, stumbled through lines in which every accent seemed to be in the wrong place.
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
In expressing so completely his own type, Mr. Yeats presents us with the case for integrity. If we can express eventually our own scholastic mentality in verse, I believe that our art will lead us not towards, but away from, English art.
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
Few realise that English poetry is rather like the British constitution, surrounded by pompous precedents and reverences.
- Constitution
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reform and exchange in English poetry are as slow as in the British constitution itself.
- Nov 07, 2020
Assonance is not the enemy of rhyme. It helps us to respect rhyme, which has been spoiled by mechanical use.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
Irish poetry has lost the ready ear and the comforts of recognition. But we must go on. We must be true to our own minds.
- Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
In contrast to our sinking taste, there has been a revival of interest in verse drama in England, Scotland, and elsewhere. The movement has been slow but sure and, above all, modest in its demands.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020