Selected Poems and Four plays by WB Yeats 1 star

[Karin]

This contains poems from throughout Yeats career in sections by publication. Each of the four plays was inserted in a different place among them matching the chronological order.

Suffice it to say I would have loved these poems when I was 12-19 and the plays from about 13-20 in my poetry and theatre saturated years. I'm no longer keen on fairies, druids, spiritualism, Plato (after reading the complete works of Plato once I'm off him for life other than two of his writings, The Apology and The Death of Socrates.)

There were a few poems I liked sprinkled in the lot; there is no doubt Yeats was a master at writing poetry, but if I don't care for the content, it hardly matters how brilliant the poet is. On the other hand, I can love the content but not like poetry that's poorly crafted. Yes, I'm difficult to please in this area.

I was less impressed with his play writing.

But at least now I can say I've read Yeats!