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"William Butler Yeats is by far the biggest poetic personality living
among us at present. He is great both as a lyric and dramatist poet."
--_John Masefield._
"This poetry has the rhythm that is incantation and sorcery, that is
not of the senses nor of the spirit, but of a mingling which is
exaltation."
--_Chicago Evening Post._
Under the title of "Responsibilities" William Butler Yeats brings together
some of his recent poems. Notable still for his freshness of thought, his
keen originality, and his purely poetic conception of thoughts and facts,
Mr. Yeats sometimes makes us wonder how he has so long been able to hold
his style above the ever rising level of modern poetry. No man stands so
apart in his own perfection as does this Irish poet and playwright, in his
art of discovering truths remote and beautiful. Serious, vital thoughts he
veils, as the genuine poet, in a cloak of fine rhythmical expression.
It is, after all, as a poet that the majority of people like to think of
Mr. Yeats, and this splendid collection, the first in a number of years,
is assured of a warm welcome.