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The greatest?(W.B. Yeats: A Life, II: The Arch-Poet)(Book Review)
From: National Review
Date: 20040223
Author:Hart, Jeffrey
W. B. Yeats: A Life, II: The Arch-Poet, by R. F. Foster (Oxford, 798 pp., $45)
IS William Butler Yeats Number One? A young professor at Columbia, one of the best lecturers on Shakespeare I ever heard and a man whose opinions I took very seriously, once remarked to me that Yeats was "the best poet in English since Shakespeare." This would mean--going chronologically--that he was better than Donne, Marvell, Milton, Pope, Wordsworth, Keats, Tennyson, and T. S. Eliot. Today's critical consensus on 20th-century poets in English looks something like this: Eliot and Yeats, tied for ...
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