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The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
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Still my favourite poet of all time! Read this one cover to cover, spent heaps of time leisurely sifting through these evocative, elliptic lines of eternity. Gyres, skies, stars & wisdom ensues. The meaning, like a carefully crafted lake of silent water, tilted ever so slightly that the form is just out of your mind's reach. If these mysterious words draw you in & make you curious, perhaps this poetry collection is for you. If they repel you, perhaps Wordsworth is your kind of poet. It takes at least a Wordsworth, Blake, Ovid & perhaps Ferdowsi to all combine, creating the mastery that is Yeats. With of course the occasional rebellious spirit that's a musically gifted Morrison of mystery.
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W.B. Yeats bought a signed 1st edition of Ulysses!
Yeat's poetry is deeply philosophical and moving. A Dialogue of Self and Soul is still a top favorite poem of all time for me.
Reference for 1st edition info:
https://www.baumanrarebooks.com/blog/...
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W.B. Yeats bought a signed 1st edition of Ulysses!
Yeat's poetry is deeply philosophical and moving. A Dialogue of Self and Soul is still a top favorite poem of all time for me.
Reference for 1st edition info:
https://www.baumanrarebooks.com/blog/...
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December 15, 2013
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February 20, 2017
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April 20, 2017
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May 29, 2017
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August 23, 2017
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September 5, 2017
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May 27, 2019
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May 27, 2019
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"This book's been staring down at me for over a few years or decades. So it's time to actually begin the annotations. It's awesome. Glad to have read Joyce 1st, happy to have explore mythology from all over & a bit of The Tain before finally circling back around.
"That God has laid his fingers on the sky,
That from those fingers glittering summer runs
Upon the dance by the dreamless wave." (pg 44-45)"
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"That God has laid his fingers on the sky,
That from those fingers glittering summer runs
Upon the dance by the dreamless wave." (pg 44-45)"
September 8, 2019
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September 8, 2019
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Mar 20, 2017 02:18PM
Biblio, I am currently reading the pictured volume here. Yeats is my favaorite poet, easily. I think his poetry is what poetry should be: beautiful, thought-provoking, and most of all relatable.
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He's the 1st I truly admired and inspired me to write poetry.
He bought it! But did he read it...all? "Who Goes With Fergus" - )
He must have read it!! How could he not?
Biblio wrote: "He must have read it!! How could he not?"Agreed. He must have!
He was a wonderfully passionate man. So good to hear he didn't disown the expatriate Joyce like his fellow countrymen! Guts trumped publically-perceived grit for both these good, brave men.
Hey Fergus - I don't really know very much about the relationship between Yeats and Joyce. I'm not much on biographical details. But it is sort of curious that most of the English speaking world still chooses to disown and denounce Sunny Jim! - )
The two great Jim's of the modern world, Mr. Joyce & Mr. Morrison. Surely they're connected via poetry. o.- <-That's a wink!
Hi Biblio! It has been awhile. I hope the universe is treating you kindly. It was Senior Week 1967, we had just graduated and it was tradition to spend at week at the beach: Ocean City, Maryland, and the song blasting from every loudspeaker along the boardwalk was Light My Fire! But you weren't even born yet, so what's going on? Jim Joyce & James Morrison, h'm. Cool wink, cool arrow too! :~)
Biblio, I'm working my way through this. Agreed, Yeats my favorite of all time. I do like Ginsberg and the beat poets, I found whitman, overall, disappointing.
