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Poetry of William Butler Yeats: Critical Commentary

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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Yeats, William Butler

Yeats, William Butler
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
Critical Commentary

Early Fame:

Almost from the beginning of his poetic career, Yeats was recognized as
one of the outstanding talents of his generation. Certainly everyone in Dublin
was convinced that he was "a genius" when he was still in his early twenties,
or so Katharine Tynan, one of his friends from that period, later recollected.
And by the time Ezra Pound, with one of this century's keenest noses for
literary value, arrived in England in 1908, he was convinced, according to
Richard Ellmann, that Yeats "was the best poet writing in ...

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