Monarch Notes, January 1st, 1963
Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Crossways Introduction: Yeats often remarked that he would like to forget and even omit from the Collected Poems this first book of lyrics, published in 1889, when he was only twenty-four. But then, he wrote (in 1925) "I have . . . remembered an old school friend who has some of them by heart, for no better reason, as I think, than that they remind him of his own youth." And so he did the next best thing; he revised Crossways carefully and, as always, superbly. Thus we must remember in reading this section of the Collected Poems that many of the poems don't appear in a...
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