The Second Coming Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the … Continue Reading Yeats Apocalyptic: “The Second Coming,” “Meru,” “The Gyres”
W. B. Yeats, “Meru” Civilisation is hooped together, broughtUnder a rule, under the semblance of peaceBy manifold illusion; but man’s … Continue Reading W. B. Yeats, “Meru”
The late poet and translator W. S. Merwin, who died only last month at ninety-one, has left us a remarkable … Continue Reading Advice to a Young Poet, from Ezra Pound
Those Images What if I bade you leave The cavern of the mind? There’s better exercise In the sunlight and … Continue Reading “The harlot and the child”: 2 Late Poems from W. B. Yeats
Kafka’s Sisters With thanks I was tubercular and dead by early summer nineteen twenty-four, long in the grave with my … Continue Reading Kafka’s Sisters & The Remains of Old Yeats (2 poems)
Óengus was asleep one night when he saw something like a young girl coming towards the head of his bed, … Continue Reading The Great Myths #2: The Dream of Óengus (Irish)
