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Yeats' faith in the development of his own powers has never failed. He wrote, in 1923, after receiving from the King of Sweden the medal symbolizing the Nobel Prize:--
It shows a young man listening to a Muse, who stands young and beautiful with a great lyre in her hand... more
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- IntrepidDreamer rated 9 months agoliterature, yeats, literary-criticism
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Yeats' faith in the development of his own powers has never failed. He wrote, in 1923, after receiving from the King of Sweden the medal symbolizing the Nobel Prize:--
It shows a young man listening to a Muse, who stands young and beautiful with a great lyre in her hand, and I think as I examine it, I was good-looking once like that young man, but my unpractised verse was full of infirmity, my Muse old as it were, and now I am old and rheumatic and nothing to look at, but my Muse is young. I am even persuaded that she is like those Angels in Swedenborg's vision, and moves perpetually towards the dayspring of her youth.
May 1938 Atlantic Monthly
by Louise Bogan
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