William Butler Yeats
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- p.99
- The fascination of what's difficult
Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent
Spontaneous joy and natural content
Out of my heart. There's something ails our colt
That must, as if it had not holy blood,
Nor on an Olympus leaped from cloud to cloud,
Shiver under the lash, strain, sweat and jolt
As though it dragged road metal. My curse on plays
That have to be set up in fifty ways,
On the day's war with every knave and dolt, p.100
Theatre business, management of men.
I swear before the dawn comes round again
I'll find the stable and pull out the bolt.
The Fascination of what's Difficult
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Title (uniform): The Fascination of what's Difficult
Author: William Butler Yeats
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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). ‘The Fascination of what’s Difficult’. In: Responsibilities and other Poems. Ed. by William Butler Yeats. New York: The Macmillan Company, pp. 99–100.
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Creation: By William Butler Yeats (1865–1939). before 1916
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- The poem is in English. (en)
Keywords: literary; poetry; W. B. Yeats; 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)
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