The Poet and the PoemA discussion of the poet's inherent attitudes, the more technical matters of verse writing, and the application of principles to actual practice. |
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... Yeats , 1924 by the Mac- millan Co. Renewed 1952 by Bertha Georgie Yeats ; " Leda and the Swan " and " Among School Children " reprinted with permis- sion of the publisher from Collected Poems by William Butler Yeats , 1928 by the ...
... Yeats , 1924 by the Mac- millan Co. Renewed 1952 by Bertha Georgie Yeats ; " Leda and the Swan " and " Among School Children " reprinted with permis- sion of the publisher from Collected Poems by William Butler Yeats , 1928 by the ...
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... Yeats saw around him in 1920 and that we might still see in the 1960's . The blood - dimmed tide was loosed even before it broke over Poland . As Yeats makes clear in other poems , the ceremony of innocence had washed under with the ...
... Yeats saw around him in 1920 and that we might still see in the 1960's . The blood - dimmed tide was loosed even before it broke over Poland . As Yeats makes clear in other poems , the ceremony of innocence had washed under with the ...
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... Yeats jots references to the whole grandeur and catastrophe of human affairs . The violation of Leda was like that of a pond by a stone , with splash , movement , color and concentric ripples of diminishing force . Thus all creativity ...
... Yeats jots references to the whole grandeur and catastrophe of human affairs . The violation of Leda was like that of a pond by a stone , with splash , movement , color and concentric ripples of diminishing force . Thus all creativity ...
Contents
FOOTHILLS OF PARNASSUSOR WHY BOTHER? | 14 |
Six Senses of the Poet | 20 |
Pole Vaulting Does Not Require an Individual Style | 34 |
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