Remembering W. B. Yeats on his birthday 🎂
📷 Arnold Genthe, Vanity Fair, October 1915
With the farming of a verse
Make a vineyard of the curse,
Sing of human unsuccess
In a rapture of distress
- W. H. Auden, "In Memory of W.B. Yeats", 1939
📷 Arnold Genthe, Vanity Fair, October 1915
With the farming of a verse
Make a vineyard of the curse,
Sing of human unsuccess
In a rapture of distress
- W. H. Auden, "In Memory of W.B. Yeats", 1939
Comments
Candy is dandy but
Liquor is quicker
Ogden Nash
Summer 1930
pencil and wash, c. 1910
Don't know if this passed Yeats' inspection or not.
Today's birthday boy, W. B. Yeats, with Sean O’Casey, James Joyce, J.M. Synge, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Lady Gregory and Samuel Beckett