I was looking forward to reading this collection of Yeats' poems. I hadn't read anything before, but had of course heard of him. However, I found I was a little bit disappointed, especially by his love-poems. They seemed rather simple to me and either way didn't resonate with me. His poems concernin...
If I had to pick my least favorite day of the year, it would be April Fools' Day. For one thing, I already have an overdeveloped sense of mistrust, so the last thing I need is a day which amps that up to 11. Another reason is that all of the attention paid to April Fools' Day overshadows the fact ...
I feels odd to give Yeats three stars, but I didn't relish the selection of these selected poems. I have a hard time rectifying my love of say, "The Second Coming" with my lack of passion for most of the poems in this volume. Oh well.
The fourth, and final, Dover poetry anthology I am reviewing. As with the others, it is an easily portable, inexpensive book. Includes work by 58 poets. Ten were born before 1600, another six in the 17th century, twelve in the 18th century, and two in the 20th century. So 28 were born in the 19th c...
This trifle of a book has more value as a pocket encyclopedia for the basic categories of apparitions that haunt the collective Irish imagination than as a collection of stories worth reading in their own right. The collection does contain a few standouts: the few poems here present are especially b...
This is the quintessential collection of the poetry of Yeats. It's dense and a bit difficult to get through, but the best part of the book are the detailed appendices and extensive explanatory notes. These both include long quotes from Yeats' personal writings, lectures and conversations, which help...
The poems I liked, I really liked. However, there were quite a few that I didn't much care for and found difficult to understand. I do appreciate that Yeat's poems must have spoke more to Irish people at the time of writing, especially the poems which referenced Parnell, Irish nationalism etc. I als...
"For he would be thinking of loveTill the stars had run awayAnd the shadows eaten the moon."I am perhaps a very selective reader of Yeats' poetry. I do not like all of his poems, but some of them I love and cherish with all of my heart. Perhaps this is due to the fact that in order to understand the...
2 Sterne gibt's eigentlich nur, weil die Sprecherin Tanja Geke das Buch ziemlich gut vorgelesen hat, sie hat eine schöne Stimme und ich habe ihr gerne zugehört. Und ich muss mal schauen, was sie sonst noch so vorgelesen hat.Das Buch selbst hat mir nicht gefallen, mag aber auch daran liegen, dass es ...
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