Selected Poems Of W B Yeats (Poetry Library)

by W B Yeats

Paperback, 1990

Status

Available

Call number

821.8

Publication

Penguin UK (1990), 368 pages

Description

This edition contains a wealth of material about the author's life and works, extensive notes and a bibliographic section.

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Our long ships loose thought-woven sails and wait,
For God has bid them share an equal fate;
And when at last defeated in His wars,
They have gone down under the same white stars,
We shall no longer hear the little cry
Of our sad hearts, that may not live nor die.


I was struck yesterday, September
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1, by the dates of Yeats' birth and death. 1865 and 1939. My pause was but a series of moments, my thoughts dragging themselves across the rocks of history, reading and a world too full of weeping. Should we champion the Orange, Velvet, Spring and make allowance for continued stone-breaking? I refute you thusly!Technology continues apace whereas our elan vital becomes a function.
An application.
A talking cure for the shipwrecked.
The edge of these sojourns leave me scratched and sore but seldom broken. Perhaps I lack the vitality to be crushed. I lack the self-awareness for such.

Temerity leads elsewhere.

I feel almost Canadian in that regard. Yeats worked for me.
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Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

1991

Physical description

368 p.; 5.04 inches

ISBN

0140586458 / 9780140586459

Barcode

3386

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