Monarch Notes, January 1st, 1963
Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Responsibilities Introduction: In the ten years between 1910 and 1920 which encompass Responsibilities, 1914, and The Wild Swans at Coole, 1919, Yeats, who had been a brilliant but still minor poet, became a great poet, the major poet of at least the first half of our century. "Withering into truth," as he had intended them to, his now stark, spare and passionate lines were infused in these years with a new metaphysical intensity. The fanciful symbols of faery and Rose forgotten, the poet had yet been unable to abandon his central concern with what John Unterecker call...
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