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...Some people have compared your works to Yeat's and Eliot's," a reporter said to Dylan a while ago. "I've never read Yeats," answered Dylan coyly intimating that he read Eliot. From Desolation...

Author: By Seth Kaplan, | Title: Positively Oxford Street | 5/8/1975 | See Source »

...analogy between traffic jams and dynamoes, and complications of diction, tone, syntax, and meaning in poetry. He is saying that obscurity and complexity are as necessary to the modern poet as blank verse was to Milton simply because they have certain ressemblances to the surface qualities of modern life. Yeat's late poetry is a good example of the implausibility of his contention. "The Second Coming" is no more obscure than a typical poet by Browning, but it can hardly be called anything but modern...

Author: By Sim Johnston, | Title: The American Hype Machine | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

MacLeish plans to compare Dickinson's poetic achievements to those of Yeats, Rousseau, and Keats in the remaining four lectures of his current series, "Poetry and Experience." He will attempt to establish that Dickinson's world is the private world, Yeat's the public, Rousseau's the artistic, and Keats's the arable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MacLeish Discusses Dickinson in Amherst | 10/28/1959 | See Source »

...Yeat's version of the Greek tragedy offers its difficulties--the longer speeches include a number of passages obviously difficult to enunciate clearly--but it is still admirably suited for a modern audience because it stresses the excitement which the play contains. The director, D.J. Sullivan, understands this fact and has recreated Oedipus as a truly gripping piece of theater. Furthermore he and Harold Scott, who portrays the King, also understand the subtle rhythms of the tragedy, for in their hands the play rises through a beautifully timed series of climaxes to the point where Oedipus' anguished scream announces that...

Author: By Thomas K. Schwabacher, | Title: Oedipus and The Critic | 10/11/1956 | See Source »

...Yeat Plan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Two-Year Plan | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

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