W.B. Yeats
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Is William Butler Yeats a /lit/ approved poet? He's my favourite, and his best poem was the Lake Isle of Innisfree.
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>>7732010
>Lake Isle of Innisfree
tf
>>7732027
He was Irish and wrote about Irish things, he was very active in the Gaelic revival
Definitely not.
I find that each chapter of Finnegans Wake can be taken alone as a canto.
In fact, in conversation with my friends (usually over espresso), I prefer to refer to Finnegans wake as "The Cantos of Jim Joyce".
"Jim" because I feel that I've developed something of a bond with the bespectacled Irishman. You see, on my mother's side we're Irish. Imagine what it would be like having a mustache like his. I close my eyes and, when I concentrate, I can feel the tickle of whiskers, like a trace of pepper caught in the steam rising off of my grandmother's mashed potatoes-- caught, drawn in by my breath to rest just inside my left nostril and sending my nose into a nervous little wiggle.
