/lit/ - Literature

>>18751861
Shakespeare

>>18751868
mebe

>>18751861

>>18751879
>>18751879

R.S. Thomas is the thinking man's Yeats

>>18751861
explore the seven seas

>>18751985
go down to mexico

>>18751861
Who? Yeats?

>>18751861
Arguably the best English poet, but if we are to take into consideration all of the other genres of literature, there are tons of writers better than Yeats.
>Proust
>Joyce
>Shakespeare
>Chaucer
>Hardy
>Emerson

>>18752162
>>Joyce
Yikes

>Proust>intirging
>Joyce>mess
>Shakespeare>gud
>Chaucer>left
>Hardy>old
>Emerson>neverherdof

>>18751861
Weird, I literally just read a passage in my book that mentions Yeats. Literally not 5 minutes before opening this thread:

>By the time we reached the river, the mist had begun to dissipate. The pinks and purples of ragged robin and wild violet sprung forth from the banks beside us, rich with fragrant meadowsweet. The sun, though still anemic, was no longer completely bloodless; it cast pale yellow rays upon the wildflowers, and lightly gilded the oars of the rowers who passed us, at intervals, on the water. Klein, having tired of my father’s anecdotes, began a tedious discussion over whether Europe had produced a poet who, in time, might be considered Goethe’s successor. I recall that my father eagerly championed Yeats, a great favourite of his, arguing that he possessed the requisite talent, the mastery of traditional forms; Klein countered that Yeats was too insular, and lacked a truly pan-European outlook. I confess I have little interest in talk of standard-bearers, or keepers of flames, and—with Christopher and Dinah having made their way some distance up the path ahead—dropped back to my mother.

Is this true? Does Yeats lack a 'pan-european outlook'? what does that even mean

>>18752632
I don't know either but that's a pretty comfy passage, what's it from?

>>18752632
he does. made from pillaging of certain tribes aND CELtic traDITIOn.

>>18752739
sorry I don't get what you mean. explain to a brainlet

>>18752707
W. G. Sebald

>>18752632
>>18752739
Yeats drew heavily from the Irish artistic tradition in his works. I wouldn't say he rejected non-Irish influences though; some of his most famous poems have classical or biblical themes (Sailing to Byzantium, The Second Coming, Leda and the Swan).