Depends. How are you defining "early"? No Yeats is complete without "The Sorrow of Fergus" and "Adam's Curse."
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 April 2015 10:59 (nine years ago) link
you referring to "Fergus and the Druid" or another poem? definitely "early", but perhaps a "dramatic fragment" rather than a "lyric"...
"Adam's Curse" = early-middle Yeats?
I've been reading Harold Bloom's Yeats study in tandem with the Collected, & he draws the line right at the turn of the century, which is convenient; but unlike Bloom, I find much to admire in the 'middle poems' of Responsibilities (1914) & The Green Helmet (1910). I'm somewhat less charmed by 1904's In the Seven Woods, so it's simple enough to shunt that one off to the early track.
― bernard snowy, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 14:03 (nine years ago) link
rosenthal's 'selected poems and four plays' is the standard, right, or used to be? i feel like i may have been recommended it on this board. this thread, possibly.
i just cant with yeats tho in general
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Tuesday, 7 April 2015 14:10 (nine years ago) link
Responsibilitie would be my cutoff point, and I'd include several of its poems.
That Bloom book is excellent on among other things Yeats' indebtedness to Shelley.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 7 April 2015 14:13 (nine years ago) link
xp yeah I was just looking at the Rosenthal... it's still like 300 pages tho! & I already have all the plays
I feel like my appreciation of a poet depends heavily on my ability to carry a book around with me for several weeks, reading & rereading during my little snatches of downtime. pocket-sized facsimile editions of The Tower & The Winding Stair have made some inroads towards the later Yeats, but if I want to dip into The Wind Among the Reeds I'm stuck lugging around a 600-page brick :/
― bernard snowy, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 14:23 (nine years ago) link
are you reading this thread on a printout?
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 April 2015 16:18 (nine years ago) link
who says he wants to appreciate us
― j., Tuesday, 7 April 2015 20:24 (nine years ago) link
... well now that you mention it, I do appreciate that counter-zing on my behalf :)
― bernard snowy, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 21:40 (nine years ago) link
it wasn't a zing I'm trying to shock u into happiness get a kindle
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 April 2015 21:43 (nine years ago) link
no thanks, I'm a sentimental traditionalist & a champion of conservative values (I'm reading Yeats ffs)
― bernard snowy, Tuesday, 7 April 2015 22:55 (nine years ago) link
this is the same Yeats with the tombshagging and the whatnot now
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Tuesday, 7 April 2015 22:57 (nine years ago) link
Better still, hand the Yeats-loaded Kindle to a gifted reader-aloud of poetry and have them insinuate the words into your brain through your ears. That way you needn't encumber your hands and may even close your eyes restfully.
― Giant Purple Wakerobin (Aimless), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 00:39 (nine years ago) link
think of how many monkey testicles you'd be able to afford thanks the savings a kindle brings
― j., Wednesday, 8 April 2015 01:09 (nine years ago) link
The benefits are endless.
― Giant Purple Wakerobin (Aimless), Wednesday, 8 April 2015 04:17 (nine years ago) link
interesting that nobody talks abt shakespeare ITT anymore, interesting and telling imo Yeats in the long run at a canto imo
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Thursday, 9 April 2015 23:39 (nine years ago) link
shakespeare in a first round KO thx
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Friday, 10 April 2015 01:28 (nine years ago) link
Yeats after the fall
― post you had fecund thoughts about (darraghmac), Friday, 10 April 2015 06:16 (nine years ago) link
ive had the first four lines of wild swans at Cooke in my head all day idk why.
how do the rhythms even work. idk.
― thoughts you made second posts about (darraghmac), Monday, 8 June 2015 00:08 (nine years ago) link
anyway, 150th bday this week rte running a course of events across TV and radio to look fwd to
― thoughts you made second posts about (darraghmac), Monday, 8 June 2015 00:09 (nine years ago) link
Yeats employed a superb bassist
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 8 June 2015 00:19 (nine years ago) link
How do I shot Yeats through guitar amp?
― Maria Felix Kept On Walking (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 8 June 2015 00:23 (nine years ago) link
giving yis both a dry downturning mouth rn
― thoughts you made second posts about (darraghmac), Monday, 8 June 2015 00:29 (nine years ago) link
On R3 also: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b05xq6b0
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 8 June 2015 04:54 (nine years ago) link
Players and painted stage took all my love,And not those things that they were emblems of.
God almighty
― tremendous crime wave and killing wave (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 14 August 2015 23:27 (eight years ago) link
√
― irl lol (darraghmac), Friday, 14 August 2015 23:38 (eight years ago) link
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― deejerk reactions (darraghmac), Monday, 28 September 2015 15:42 (eight years ago) link
*folds arms, raises eyebrows at shakespeare*
― MONKEY had been BUMMED by the GHOST of the late prancing paedophile (darraghmac), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 23:23 (eight years ago) link
no way of comparing...
― doing my Objectives, handling some intense stuff (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 23:43 (eight years ago) link
i was gonna read Deidre, one of the plays, this week.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 23:56 (eight years ago) link
I'm easily riled but It's been a while since I've seen something that's riled me this much. This is an object lesson on hot to not read a great poem. And how to dress badly to boot. What on earth is she doing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0VuBD-yxVI
― CRANK IT YA FILTHY BISM! (jed_), Sunday, 22 May 2016 03:53 (eight years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPB_17rbNXk
― the ghost of tom, choad (thomp), Sunday, 22 May 2016 05:05 (eight years ago) link
I've already had that misfortune^. Not the whole thing, obviously.
― CRANK IT YA FILTHY BISM! (jed_), Sunday, 22 May 2016 05:32 (eight years ago) link
"Watch this video on youtube. Playback on other sites has been disabled by this owner"
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 22 May 2016 09:03 (eight years ago) link
Think I've seen Shaw read Shakespeare on TV. That's when you know your voice is the best voice.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 22 May 2016 09:09 (eight years ago) link
I know not what the younger dreams --Some vague Utopia -- and she seems,When withered old and skeleton-gaunt,An image of such politics.
― have you ever even read The Drudge Report? Have you gone on Stormfron (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 2 August 2016 04:38 (seven years ago) link
I read a page of a yeats short story aloud yesterday and jeez there was a guy who needed the breaks forced onto him. Rhythm and cadence was there but sentences were running sevenclause deep.
― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 00:03 (seven years ago) link
yet his Autobiographies is beautiful, and so is a meditational reverie called "Per Amica Silentia Lunae."
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 00:11 (seven years ago) link
I dont doubt it, the 'aloud' part was what caused me the problems.
― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Wednesday, 3 August 2016 00:15 (seven years ago) link
anyone read yeats' plays? the collection i've got has "calvary" and "purgatory"
― have you ever even read The Drudge Report? Have you gone on Stormfron (k3vin k.), Thursday, 11 August 2016 01:56 (seven years ago) link
Yes. Read The Words Upon the Windowpane for realistic drama, Purgatory in his spare Noh phase.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 11 August 2016 01:59 (seven years ago) link
oh these are super short too
― have you ever even read The Drudge Report? Have you gone on Stormfron (k3vin k.), Thursday, 11 August 2016 02:03 (seven years ago) link
A Deep-sworn Vow
OTHERS because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine; Yet always when I look death in the face, When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, Suddenly I meet your face.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 26 April 2017 00:08 (seven years ago) link
ughhhh
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 26 April 2017 00:45 (seven years ago) link
stop soul-reading me, WBY
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 26 April 2017 00:50 (seven years ago) link
WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim Soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face; And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled And paced upon the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.
― k3vin k., Monday, 14 August 2017 14:01 (six years ago) link
Always enjoyed the hints of malice/goes in that one
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Monday, 14 August 2017 15:21 (six years ago) link
/glee
The entire social concept of friendzoning justified in the most beautiful whines imaginable
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Monday, 14 August 2017 15:23 (six years ago) link
The leaden echo and the golden echo is the best poem
― remember the lmao (darraghmac), Sunday, 10 December 2017 10:03 (six years ago) link
the boss just made a reference to "the second coming", you know the "slouching towards bethlehem" bit. "we've all been slouching towards bethlehem a little bit". it wasn't an allusion that was cleaving closely to the original - she was emphasizing the slouching towards something, there was no hint of apocalypse. a co-worker piped in "that was christmas"
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 18 April 2019 18:37 (five years ago) link