William Butler Yeats
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- p.108
- (Imitated from Ronsard)
- Dear Craoibhin Aoibhin, look into our case.
When we are high and airy hundreds say
That if we hold that flight they'll leave the place,
While those same hundreds mock another day
Because we have made our art of common things,
So bitterly, you'd dream they longed to look
All their lives through into some drift of wings.
You've dandled them and fed them from the book p.109
And know them to the bone; impart to us—
We'll keep the secret—a new trick to please.
Is there a bridle for this Proteus
That turns and changes like his draughty seas?
Or is there none, most popular of men,
But when they mock us that we mock again?
At the Abbey Theatre
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Title (uniform): At the Abbey Theatre
Author: William Butler Yeats
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Electronic edition compiled and proof-read by: Beatrix Färber and Juliette Maffet
Funded by: School of History, University College, Cork
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Date: 2012
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Bibliography
- A bibliography is available online at the official web site of the Nobel Prize. See: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1923/yeats-bibl.html
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Yeats, William Butler (1916). ‘At the Abbey Theatre’. In: Responsibilities and other Poems. Ed. by William Butler Yeats. New York: The Macmillan Company, pp. 108–109.
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Creation: By William Butler Yeats (1865–1939). before 1916
Language usage
- The poem is in English. (en)
- Two words are in Irish. (ga)
Keywords: literary; poetry; W. B. Yeats; 19c; 20c
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- 2012-02-15: File proofed (2), additions to encoding made; header completed; file parsed; SGML and HTML files created. (ed. Beatrix Färber)
- 2012-02-01: Header created. (ed. Juliette Maffet)
- 2012-01-23: First proofing. (ed. Juliette Maffet)
- 2012-01-18: Text captured by scanning. (file capture Juliette Maffet)