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William Butler Yeats (1865–1939; Irish)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 February 2021
Summary
Though Yeats lived well after the standard dates of the Romantic era, he came of age when Romantic themes and styles were still the staple of poetry. Looking back on that time he wrote, “We were the last romantics—chose for theme / Traditional sanctity and loveliness.” “The Song of the Happy Shepherd” (1889), placed first in his Collected Poems, sounds like the setting of the Romantic sun, to borrow Baudelaire’s title (p. x).
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- Romanticism: 100 Poems , pp. 170 - 172Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021