W. B. Yeats: a reminiscence

Frank O'CONNOR, pseud., i.e. Michael Francis O'Donovan

Verlag: Edinburgh: Tragara Press, 1982

Beschreibung

Grey wrappers. Edition limited to 125 numbered copies. "He is the most musical poet after Shakespeare. On that account alone he never had any time for my favourite poet, Hardy. Hopkins I think he might have liked, but on the only occasion when they met, Hopkins, who was an Imperialist, said that the Irish politician William O'Brien should be hanged. Yeats could not imagine anyone with views as shaky as that writing good poetry. That, too, was why he denounced my frequent literary inventions which held up the declamator's flow of the line. He wrote to me that I should cultivate 'the smooth and logical syntax of passion' and told me another time 'You should write verse as if you were shouting to a man at the other side of the street and were afraid he wouldn't hear you.'" Text of a radio talk given on 4 May 1947. Halliwell A89. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers TR120390

Bibliografische Details

Titel: W. B. Yeats: a reminiscence

Verlag: Edinburgh: Tragara Press

Erscheinungsdatum: 1982

Einband: Soft cover

Zustand: Fine

Auflage: 1st Edition