From The Second Life of Art: Selected Essays of Eugenio Montale, edited and translated by Jonathan Galassi
YEATS
"In William Butler Yeats -- probably the last great lyric poet that the United Kingdom has had -- his neo-Gaelic paraphernalia and all the weaknesses inherent in the thought of a drawing-room spiritualist were overcome and outweighed by a wave of melody."
From W. H. Auden
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