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A Dialogue of Self and Soul. By William Butler Yeats. I. My Soul. I summon to the winding ancient stair; Set all your mind upon the steep ascent, Upon the broken, crumbling battlement, Upon the breathless starlit air, Upon the star that marks the hidden pole;
When he finished his dog's day: An ancient bankrupt master of this house. Before that ruin came, for centuries, Rough men-at-arms, cross-gartered to the knees. Or shod in iron, climbed the narrow stairs, And certain men-at-arms there were. Whose images, in the Great Memory stored, Come with loud cry and panting breast.
Jan 27, 2020 · By. Bob Holman & Margery Snyder. Updated on January 27, 2020. William Butler Yeats was both poet and playwright, a towering figure in 20th-century literature in English, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923, a master of traditional verse forms and at the same time an idol of the modernist poets who followed him.
W. B. Yeats bibliography. This is a list of all works by Irish poet and dramatist W. B. (William Butler) Yeats (1865–1939), winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature and a major figure in 20th-century literature. Works sometimes appear twice if parts of new editions or significantly revised. Posthumous editions are also included if they ...
Nov 21, 2023 · William Butler Yeats. William Butler Yeats, often better known as W.B. Yeats, was an Irish poet, playwright, and politician. His work is often considered an important precursor to Modernism and he ...
September 1913. By William Butler Yeats. What need you, being come to sense, But fumble in a greasy till. And add the halfpence to the pence. And prayer to shivering prayer, until. You have dried the marrow from the bone; For men were born to pray and save:
