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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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classics-western
April 20, 2017
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currently-sampling-n-indulging
May 29, 2017
– Shelved as:
skim-abandon-revisit
August 23, 2017
– Shelved as:
to-read
September 5, 2017
– Shelved as:
currently-for-the-long-haul
May 27, 2019
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Started Reading
May 27, 2019
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10.48%
"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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drama-poems
September 8, 2019
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Finished Reading
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