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Experiencing majesty of Yeats in his poetic prime.(BOOKS)
From: The Washington Times
Date: 20040425
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Byline: Martin Rubin, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Few poets have worked so hard to shape the edifice of their poetic oeuvre as William Butler Yeats. Arranging and rearranging his poems, moving this one so that it replied to that one, letting the light of another illuminate the ones before and after it: This calculated activity led one critic to dub Yeats' "Collected Poems" the sacred book of his art.
The publication of a facsimile version of arguably the strongest collection to appear in Yeats' lifetime, "The Tower" (1928), allows the 21st-century reader to experience ...
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