The Green Helmet and Other Poems
W. B. Yeats
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Description
The Green Helmet and Other Poems, from 1910, centers on Yeats's verse play The Green Helmet, which retells Cuchulain's beheading game as a contest of heroic courtesy. Around the play stand poems of love, aging, and disillusion with public life. Yeats's middle manner shows clearly: leaner, tougher, more public than the dreamy early books.
Mythology here is staged as moral trial, with heroes tested on generosity and pride rather than strength alone. Personal lyrics admit gray hair and cooling passion with dry honesty. Readers tracing Yeats's development will find the volume a hinge, closing the Celtic twilight period and opening the road toward the stark greatness of his later collections.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | W. B. Yeats |
|---|---|
| COLLECTION | BOOKS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 36 KB |
| LICENSE | Project Gutenberg License |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | Project Gutenberg |