And what if excess of love bewildered them till they died?

3.5 / 4 ?
rating anthologies/collections is always very hard

selected poems.

Final review and rating to come!!!
3rd book for my RoryGilmoreReadathon

I'm aware of the value of Yeats' poetry - I greatly enjoyed 'Leda and the Swan', for instance. However, a lot of it, I simply did not find enjoyable - I would rather read Heaney, Harwood, or Edgar Allan Poe.

sublime

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• The life of Yeats (like most of the people living in the Victorian period) is quite interesting to me - mystical and weird. ⠀
I'm fascinated with tragedy and I found so much of that in his life! Sometimes I wonder if I should share tragical stories that I've been stumbled upon? Will people want to hear it? But a part of me hates to reveal these forgotten lives in history to be taken as another 'pop' thing, just as the case of Vincent van Gogh.⠀
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• Back to Yeats's poetry, not a five-star favourite but I found some gems in this book (prefer the short ones better).⠀
A list for later reference (in order of appearance):⠀
- The Stolen Child⠀
- Down by Salley Gardens⠀
- The Sorrow of Love⠀
- When You are Old⠀
- The Lover tells of the Rose in his Heart⠀
- He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven⠀
- Never Give all the Heart⠀
- Words⠀
- A Dialogue of Self and Soul⠀
- What Then?⠀
- Why Should not old Men be Mad?

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