One had a lovely face
And two or three had charm
But face and charm were in vain
I could not change for the grass
Cannot but keep the form
Where the mountain hare has lain.
WB Yeats, earliest surviving text of ‘Memory’ (published 1916).
Feeling some “righteous anger” myself today on hearing the obscenities spewing from JD Vance’s mouth. Here is a soldier from the Sikh Regiment, at the liberation of Italy. They fought and died with us in North Africa too, and all through the War. Decent folk remember.
This needed to be said.
F.T. Prince (from “Senilia” in his 1993 Collected Poems)
W.H. Auden.
Isaac Rosenberg, 1916.
This weather had better improve, is all I’m saying.
(Louis MacNeice said it better: from The Burning Perch (1963))
A.E. Housman, on the hilarious folly of classical metre in English. (Not that anyone actually thinks about this stuff any more. Still…)
youtu.be/aZuQbZv0OQs
As long as a feature film, but you never know, might interest some folk. Now imagine doing this for every poem WBY ever wrote …
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June 2027: this will be a wonderful event - come to Belfast and participate!
