{"id":6379,"date":"2015-06-12T09:28:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T13:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6379"},"modified":"2015-06-12T09:28:10","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T13:28:10","slug":"w-b-yeats-at-150","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6379","title":{"rendered":"W.B. Yeats at 150"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/94039982@N00\/17070493885\" title=\"Yeats Memorial by Stefan J\u00fcrgensen, on Flickr\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c1.staticflickr.com\/9\/8781\/17070493885_8b0a2b7991.jpg?resize=474%2C316&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"474\" height=\"316\" alt=\"Yeats Memorial\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>June 13 will mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of William Bulter Yeats. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poem\/172065#\">tale<\/a> that she<br \/>\nTold of a harsh reproof, or trivial event<br \/>\nThat changed some childish day to tragedy&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Irish Times has several articles and personal reflections to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/books\/wb-yeats-at-150\">commemorate the day<\/a>. They say he published with them, being &#8220;a prolific journalist, contributing to dozens of newspapers, magazines and periodicals on matters of both politics and poetry, although for the budding writer the two were indivisible. The young idealist may have had loftier aspirations than the industry he later decried as &#8216;jeering, tittering, emptiness,&#8217; but it was a good and important beginning for him: a way to augment his meagre living and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/books\/wb-yeats-and-the-irish-times-1.2241590\">increase his profile<\/a> for his poetry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And thinking of that fit of grief or rage<br \/>\nI look upon one child or t&#8217;other there<br \/>\nAnd wonder if she stood so at that age\u2014<br \/>\nFor even daughters of the swan can share<br \/>\nSomething of every paddler&#8217;s heritage\u2014&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 13 will mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of William Bulter Yeats. &#8220;a tale that she Told of a harsh reproof, or trivial event That changed some childish day to tragedy&#8221; The Irish Times has several articles and personal reflections to commemorate the day. They say he published with them, being &#8220;a prolific &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=6379\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">W.B. Yeats at 150<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,11],"tags":[3287],"class_list":["post-6379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-poetry","tag-w-b-yeats"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}