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- For Anne Gregory by William Butler Yeats 17 lines, 4 comments
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On The Age and Poetry of the Minnesingers, Troubadours, &c. FRANCE by Anonymous, from AethelgregLearned controversies have agitated the rival partisans of the Langue d'oc and Langue d'oeil, as to their comparative antiquity, their mutual relations, and the degree of influence on the literature of modern Europe which may properly be ascribed to each. The exact period to be assigned to the formation of the proper Northern Romance we can hardly expect to determine; the most probable theory may be, that one common Romance was universally diffused as the popular tongue over the Gallic provinces at a very early period, perhaps even under the Roman Government itself, but at least during that gradual dissolution of the Roman institutions, which took place on the establishment of the barbarian monarchies.
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on Are You Content? by William Butler Yeats, 8 hours agoInstead of calling on posterity to judge him, Yeats is wondering if his life's work is worthy of his half-legendary ancestors. Is he not content because he's not resting on his laurels - he can always do better - or because he seriously wonders whether his life has been wasted? (No, it wasn't.)
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on The Apparitions by William Butler Yeats, 8 hours agoGiven that Yeats believed in spiritualism, it is really hard to tell what he means about the apparitions! He seems to be deliberately seeking derision, but is that because he hasn't really seen apparitions, or because he thinks he has?
In the second verse Yeats's pleasure in sitting up talking with a friend seems to be affected by the fear of being unintelligible - due to old age?
In the third verse, the increasing Night is presumably his approaching death. If he really found his joy increasing with old age he was very lucky.
No one of Yeats's best, but still good. -
on For Anne Gregory by William Butler Yeats, 8 hours agoI know gentlement prefer blondes, but I doubt if anyone really loves someone for their hair colour. This is just an extended - and humorous - comment on its beauty.
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