SOURCE: "Yeats's Epitaph," a review of Last Poems and Plays, in The New Republic, Vol. 102, No. 26 (1334), June 24, 1940, pp. 862-63.
In the following excerpt, MacNeice remarks on the resilience of the aging Yeats's poetic voice and observes that the poet's native Ireland features prominently in the works collected in his Last Poems and Plays.
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