The Green Helmet and Other Poems (annotated), by William Butler Yeats
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I swayed upon the gaudy stern The butt end of a steering oar, And everywhere that I could turn Men ran upon the shore. And though I would have hushed the crowd There was no mother's son but said, "What is the figure in a shroud Upon a gaudy bed?"
The Green Helmet and Other Poems (annotated), by William Butler Yeats- Published on: 2015-11-09
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .12" w x 6.00" l, .18 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 50 pages
About the Author William Butler Yeats is generally considered to be Ireland s greatest poet, living or dead, and one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Reconsidering Yeats Dramatic Work By Anthony J. Gillespie Published in 1910 The Green Helmet and Poems is a fair collection of mid-period Yeats. There are a few of the frequently anthologized hits, "No Second Troy" and "The Fascination of What's Difficult," as well as plenty of more obscure and less successful poems. This slim volume does contain the brief and beautiful "A Drinking Song," which I think is Yeats' most moving love poem and one you should read right now if you haven't before.The real surprise here is the verse drama The Green Helmet, which combines Celtic mythology, Irish politics, social criticism, and medieval legend in a tightly plotted folk tale. The play's rhymed dialogue is clear and readable, even more than the poems that precede it. With a plot that echoes Gawain and the Green Knight, Yeats's Irish heroes Laegaire (read as Leary), Conall, and Cuchulain battle each other as they try to outwit a faerie-like, fox-eyed trickster known as the Red Man. While there's plenty of political commentary in the lines ("Here neighbour wars on neighbour and why there is no man knows, / And if a man is lucky all wish his luck away, And take his good name from him between a day and a day."), the language is free of Symbolist influence and the mythological allusions don't overwhelm. This is both an accessible and a satisfying short play.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. He Writes Prose Too By propertius I admit to being in love with Yeats' poetry as ones loves his first paramour and indeed Yeats was close to being my first. Therefore I write this to admit that I find his verse more appealing than his plays and I tend to read his plays with an eye toward his verse. That being said this collection is a fine compromise but I would not suggest for the first time reader of Yeats. In fact I would advise the uninitiated to read his works backwards and then begin at his earliest period again.The mythology and arcane history that Yeats used to literally create the Irish experience has nothing to match it in literary history although a case may by made for Homer and the Greeks. Yes, William Butler Yeats is that much of a profound artist.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Many famous poems - and an odd play By Classics Lover This book is a collection of Yeats' poems - many well known, all interesting - and a short one-act play, "the green helmet", which is given by a mysterious, mystical man to a group of warriors at the price of one of their own's life. The play is, to me, extremely obscure and odd, but - as always with Yeats - it is a religious allegory, of one of the men willing to willingly, Christ-like, lay down his life for this treasure, the helmet, to be given to all (or so it seems to me at first reading, at any rate). Some of Yeats' writing aged badly or is obscure to those who are not Catholics, but the poems are very often beautiful and well worth reading.
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