W. B. Yeats

Articles

• #Ulysse 3685
  17 mars 2022, par Guillaume Vissac

  —I feel you would need one more for Hamlet. Seven is dear to the mystic mind. The shining seven WB calls them.

• #Ulysse 4099
  8 mai 2023, par Guillaume Vissac

  He went on and down, mopping, chanting with waving graceful arms :
  — The most beautiful book that has come out of our country in my time.

• #Ulysse 3796
  7 juillet 2022, par Guillaume Vissac

  Young Colum and Starkey. George Roberts is doing the commercial part. Longworth will give it a good puff in the Express. O, will he ? I liked Colum’s Drover. Yes, I think he has that queer thing genius. Do you think he has genius really ? Yeats admired his line : As in wild earth a Grecian vase. Did he ? I hope you’ll be able to come tonight. Malachi Mulligan is coming too. Moore asked him to bring Haines. Did you hear Miss Mitchell’s joke about Moore and Martyn ? That Moore is Martyn’s wild oats ? Awfully clever, isn’t it ? They remind one of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza. Our national epic has yet to be written, Dr Sigerson says. Moore is the man for it. A knight of the rueful countenance here in Dublin. With a saffron kilt ? O’Neill Russell ? O, yes, he must speak the grand old tongue. And his Dulcinea ? James Stephens is doing some clever sketches. We are becoming important, it seems.

• #Ulysse 4098
  7 mai 2023, par Guillaume Vissac

  — Longworth is awfully sick, he said, after what you wrote about that old hake Gregory. O you inquisitional drunken jewjesuit ! She gets you a job on the paper and then you go and slate her drivel to Jaysus. Couldn’t you do the Yeats touch ?

• #Ulysse 4119
  28 mai 2023, par Guillaume Vissac

  A dark back went before them, step of a pard, down, out by the gateway, under portcullis barbs.

• #Ulysse 121
  5 juin 2012, par Guillaume Vissac

  His head vanished but the drone of his descending voice boomed out of the stairhead :

  And no more turn aside and brood
  Upon love’s bitter mystery
  For Fergus rules the brazen cars.