Dear Alison
As his later poems include the odd sequence
of Irish Fascist marching songs, my position
on the later poetry of W.B. Yeats
is that while there are things to admire like
"The Circus Animals Desertion" and "Crazy Jane",
I've never been a "Long-Legged Fly" man.
It's not supposed politics, but the politics I find
in them. Have you read Jamieson? Because,
it's also the silences that seem damning in later
Yeats. The world the poems construct, isn't
constructive, isn't fair, isn't likeable. Is that what
you mean by praise for them as 'tough'.
regards
Hugh
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Subject: Re: Finneran's Yeats
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> What Hugh, you like poems according to their supposed politics? Boy, are
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> Laurie Duggan is perfectly entitled to dislike all Yeats. But that would
> require disliking about six different poets.
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> Best
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