
The Green Helmet and Other Poems
A Poetry, Cultural, Classics book. Romantic Ireland's dead and goneIt's with O' Leary in the grave(September 1913) W.B. Yeats, The Green Helmet and Other...
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- Pages: 108 pages
- ISBN: 9781428626232 / 1428626239
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Romantic Ireland's dead and goneIt's with O' Leary in the grave(September 1913) W.B. Yeats, The Green Helmet and Other Poems //
Published in 1910 The Green Helmet and Poems is a fair collection of mid-period Yeats. There are a few of the frequently anthologized hits, "No Second Troy" and "The Fascination of What's Difficult," as well as plenty of more obscure and less successful poems. This slim volume does contain the brief and beautiful "A Drinking Song,"... This is my first time reading any Yeats and I am pleasantly surprised how much I enjoyed it.The first part is poems and the second part is a play, The Green Helmet, another new experience for me! The play was easy to read and follow so I will be reading more of them.Definitely a new fan here! I love Yeats, even his minor work lifts my heart. The title poem, a play with a plotline similar to the Green Knight, has the Red Man returning a year after having his head cut off, to collect his penalty, the head of man to be cut off. He had left behind the Green Helmet for the "best of you all to lift." The men in the house quarrel...