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This recording discusses the life and work of poet W.B. Yeats, exploring his reputation and stature in the literary world. It examines his connection to Irish culture and folklore, and how these influences shaped his poetry. The speaker reflects on Yeats' views on the inner life of a people and the role of imagination in art.
Kathleen Raine — 9 recordings in the archive.
The book: Yeats the Initiate by Kathleen Raine.
I have lived long enough to see nate's reputation undergo more than one change following changes in the climate of the literary world at no time has his stature as a major poet been doubt nor is it likely to be otherwise in time to come the greatest poet since milton t r hain used to say and indeed one would be half put to it to argue that wordsworth or shelley or even yates's early master blake though a greater prophetic visionary better deserves that title but it may be interesting at this time to look back on earlier views and to examine our own i shall remind you of two very different earlier ways of seeing him and then suggest how he ate may come to be seen in the very different world we are now entering the first time i went to speak about yates was i think in 1924 when as a poetry loving schoolgirl i introduced a choice of my favorite modern poets they were i seem to remember nearly all irish birds patrick collum george russell i think katherine and tynan were among them and of course yates i believe i chose he wishes for the cloths of heaven and the lake isle of innisfree i must have included some english poets de la mer probably but it is significant that i cannot remember them at that time the irish renaissance re-echoed here in england it was before elliot and ezra pond had set the course of poetry in for the time at least another direction my generation was under the enchantment of rutland burton's the immortal hour based on an irish mythological story many of my friends had seen it 10 or 20 times money being scarce in my family i saw it only two or three times with undiminished delight i chose irish poems at least for the best of reasons because i loved them because they spoke to me i am i realized speaking of a world a climate so far removed from the present that i wonder if i can evoke even the faintest fragrant of what was probably the last moment in this country when the general response to poetry was imaginative rather than intellectual i was a child of my time and had long loved what i can only call the island of the imagination by this i…