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Tag Archives: W.B. Yeats
Mary Poppins and WB Yeats
What the hell is the connection between the two? I didn’t even know there WAS one until I read this absolutely wonderful article in The NY Times this morning. I am in love with that entire article – its insights, … Continue reading
Bloomsday: “It is an entirely new thing”
Yeats read a chapter or two of Ulysses, which had been serialized in the Little Review from Paris. His first comment was: “A mad book!” But then later, not much later, he said, “I have made a terrible mistake. It … Continue reading
“the rambling mind”
“It is an entirely new thing — neither what they eye sees nor the ear hears, but what the rambling mind thinks and imagines from moment to moment. He has certainly surpassed in intensity any novelist of our time.” — … Continue reading
Auden on Yeats
Here’s a poetic masterpiece (in honor of National Poetry Month) In Memory of W.B. Yeats by Auden I He disappeared in the dead of winter: The brooks were frozen, the airports almost deserted, And snow disfigured the public statues; The … Continue reading
General Irish Revelry: Seamus on Yeats, Anne on Maud Gonne
Beautiful and interesting piece on William Butler Yeats by Seamus Heaney. Peteb sent it to me a whlie back but I am just getting to it now. Some great observations: Conquest, difficulty, labour: these terms indicate the nature of Yeats’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Ireland, Irish poetry, Maud Gonne, poetry, Seamus Heaney, W.B. Yeats
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2005 Books Read
Here is the complete list of books I read in 2005. Underworld: A Novel, by Don DeLillo – which I had started in the fall of 2004- before I went to Ireland – and it took me FOREVER to finish … Continue reading
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Tagged American Sphinx, books read, Charming Billy, Children of the Arbat, Crowds and Power, Darkness at Noon, East of Eden, Edmund Burke, Harry Potter, L.M. Montgomery, Middlemarch, Miracle at Philadelphia, The Great Terror, The Pigman, Underworld, W.B. Yeats, Year of Magical Thinking
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Again With the Cloud-Pale Eyelids, Yeats?
I am now reading The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats I have my own personal favorites in the bunch – but I’ve never sat down and read them ALL straight through. It’s an interesting experience – reading his earlier poems, … Continue reading
Famous epitaphs
John Keats, great poet, who died in 1821 (and I think his birthday was Sunday), wrote his own epitaph, which is now rightly famous: “Here lies one whose name was writ in water.” But actually, the full epitaph reads like … Continue reading
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Tagged Emily Dickinson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jack London, John Keats, Robert Frost, Shakespeare, Thomas Jefferson, W.B. Yeats
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“The Second Coming” of Bob Geldof
Always loved Bob Geldof and the Boomtown Rats. We loved them in high school. His stuff, in a way, was a precursor to what took over the world in 1991 with the release of Nirvana’s “Nevermind”. Or with early Pearl … Continue reading
“It is an entirely new thing”
Here are two different quotes from WB Yeats about Ulysses: 1. He read a chapter or two of Ulysses, which had been serialized in the Little Review from Paris. His first comment was: “A mad book!” 2. Not too long … Continue reading