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The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
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In the fall of my last year in high school, I read extensively from this book in order to prepare my fall term paper. I chose Yeats because the Clancy Brothers occasionally included readings of poems by Yeats on their records and in their concerts. Given that the Clancy Brothers were very close Bob Dylan they constituted for me an important authority.
Looking back I realized now what an anomaly Yeats was. He was a master of cadence, sound and rhyme skills that are no longer valued by English poets. No one since Yeats has written poems to be recited in taverns.
I applaud the Nobel Academy for having awarded the 2016 Literature Prize to Bob Dylan. I cannot think of any poet who loved the English language as much as he did. Yeats in some measure however small would have been one of Dylan's sources of inspiration. At a minimum Dylan would have known the Host of the Air and the other Yeats poems in the repertory of the Clancy Brothers.
To hear a masterful version of Yeats Host of the air, go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyPc6...
Looking back I realized now what an anomaly Yeats was. He was a master of cadence, sound and rhyme skills that are no longer valued by English poets. No one since Yeats has written poems to be recited in taverns.
I applaud the Nobel Academy for having awarded the 2016 Literature Prize to Bob Dylan. I cannot think of any poet who loved the English language as much as he did. Yeats in some measure however small would have been one of Dylan's sources of inspiration. At a minimum Dylan would have known the Host of the Air and the other Yeats poems in the repertory of the Clancy Brothers.
To hear a masterful version of Yeats Host of the air, go to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyPc6...
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October 16, 1969
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December 17, 1969
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May 17, 2017
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May 17, 2017
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June 23, 2018
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The Noble committee has foresight to have awarded Bob the award before he was born, Czarny. Do not underestimate those Swedes.
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david wrote: "The Noble committee has foresight to have awarded Bob the award before he was born, Czarny. Do not underestimate those Swedes."Right you are. It was 2016 not 1916, I do not think Dylan was a bad choice. I personally found LeClezio and Modiano to have been weaker choices than Dylan. I also have problems with Kertesz and Szymborska.
