W. B. Yeats

'But I, being poor, have only my dreams; / I have spread my dreams under your feet...' By turns joyful and despairing, some of the twentieth century's greatest verse on fleeting youth, fervent hopes and futile sacrifice.

A Terrible Beauty Is Born

Emma

Kieran Wood

Really interesting. I've never read any Yeats and he's a great poet. The one thing is that you need to take your time on many poems as there's a lot of references to things that are not as well known today (i.e. the sphinx in the second coming).

A Terrible Beauty Is Born

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