A Little Yeats

Yesterday's New York Times had a nice article on the Yeats exhibit at the National Library of Ireland. The website for the exhibit is stunning, to my mind a very fine example of how technology can be used to both preserve yet make accessible all these lovely rare documents and notebooks that most people would otherwise never get to see.

I've only read two Yeats poems so far, The Lake Isle of Innisfree and When You Are Old. He's on the list though, one of the first I want to read once I've gotten through the Romantics. I have read his book Mythologies and there is some beautiful writing in there as well.

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Only thing I could tell you is that he was one of many namechecked on the fabulous 'Endless Art' by the Dublin band A-House.

If I may...here's the spoken/sung lyric:-

"All art is quite useless according to Oscar Wilde.

Turner 1775 to 1851
Toulouse-Lautrec 1864 to 1901
Andy Warhol 1928 to 1987 RIP

Ernest Hemingway 1899 to 1961
George Orwell, Jimi Hendrix, William Butler Yeats, Jack B. Yeats

Richard Redgrave 1804 to 1888
Henry Moore 1896 to 1986
Henry Miller, Sid Vicious only 21
Brian Jones
Otis Redding 1941 to 1967 RIP

All dead, yet still alive
In endless time, endless art

Masters of their arts
Claude Monet 1840 to 1926
Beethoven, Bach, Brahms
Elvis Presley 1935 to ‘77
Man Ray, Johnnie Ray
John Donne 1573 to 1631
Alfred Lord Tennyson 1809 to ‘92
Degeneration art, Joan Miro, RIP

Jackson Pollock 1912 to 1956
John Lennon ‘40 to ‘80
Henry Lamb, Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, William Shakespeare
Brendan Behan 1923 to 1964
Tennessee Williams 1912 to 1983
Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 to 1889
Pissaro, Picasso, Degas RIP

All dead, yet still alive
In endless time, endless art

Joseph Conrad 1857 to 1924
Jack Kerouac 1922 to 1969
Keith Moon 1946 to 1978
D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Mozart
Van Gogh 1853 to 1890
Ian Curtis, Salvador Dali, Johann Strauss, Richard Strauss, Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse RIP"

The song was produced by Edwyn Collins....

And furthermore, A House also recorded 'More Endless Art' which celebrated the female contribution to culture:-

"All art is quite useless according to Oscar Wilde

Colette 1873 to 1954
Marilyn Monroe 1926 to 1962
Billie Holiday 1915 to 1959 RIP

Emily Dickinson 1830 to 1886
George Eliot, Margot Fonteyn, Katherine Mansfield, Elizabeth Bowen

Edith Piaf 1915 to 1963
Sylvia Plath 1932 to 1963
Simone de Beauvoir
Jean Stafford 1915 to 1979
Gracie Fields
Vivien Leigh 1913 to 67 RIP

All dead, yet still alive
In endless time, endless art

Masters of their arts
Anais Nin 1903 to 1977
Charlotte, Anne, Emily Bronte
Janis Joplin 1943 to 1970

Hilda Doolittle, Mata Hari
Eleonara Duse 1859 to 1924
Anne Frank 1929 to 1945
Degeneration art, Jean Rhys, RIP

Ingrid Bergman 1915 to 1982
Bessie Smith 1895 to 1937

Maria Callas, Julie London, Judy Garland, Gertrude Stein
Greta Garbo 1905 to 1990
Virginia Woolf 1882 to 1941
Louisa May Alcott 1832 to 1888
Mary Shelley, Grace Kelly RIP

All dead, yet still alive
In endless time, endless art

Jane Austen 1775 to 1817
Louise Brooks 1906 to 1985
Joyce Grenfell 1910 to 1979
S.E. Hinton, Enid Blyton, Edith Sitwell
Isadora Duncan 1878 to 1927
Ivy Compton-Burnett 1892 to 1969
Walt Disney’s Minnie Mouse RIP

All dead, yet still alive
In endless time, endless art"

Happy to send you over the mp3 files if you like.....

[Greer]

I'm really enjoying those songs, thanks again!!