Some New moon: The Green Helmet, and Other Poems by W.B. Yeats

O love is the crooked thing, There is nobody wise enoughTo find out all that is int, For he would be thinking of loveTill the stars had run awayAnd the shadows eaten the moon.W.B. Yeats' The Green Helmet and Other Poems, first published in book form in the year 1910, is a strange little text. Comprising of …

D is for Dogs

It is 1939. Europe is sitting on a tinder box. The year begins on a tragic note. Nobel Laureate W.B. Yeats, having already witnessed a world war and other dances of destruction closes his eyes forever. PoetW.H. Auden, having but recently shifted to New York, writes an elegy mourning not only the death of the …