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The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

(Wordsworth Poetry Library)

By William Butler Yeats

(26)

| Paperback | 9781853264542

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Romantic and Modernist, mystical dreamer and leader of the Irish Literary Revival, W.B. Yeats began writing with the intention of putting his "very self" into his poems. T.S. Eliot, one of the many who proclaimed the Irishman's greatness, described Yeats as "one of those few whose history is the hisContinue

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the lady's first song
"i turn round
like a dumb beast in a show,
neither know what i am
nor where i go,
my language beaten
into one name;
i am in love
and that is my shame.
what hurts the soul
my soul adores,
no better than a beast
upon all ... (continue)

the lady's first song
"i turn round
like a dumb beast in a show,
neither know what i am
nor where i go,
my language beaten
into one name;
i am in love
and that is my shame.
what hurts the soul
my soul adores,
no better than a beast
upon all fours"

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