求叶芝的英文介绍

求叶芝的英文介绍

William Butler Yeats

Irish poet, dramatist and prose writer, one of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century. Yeats received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. Between the Celtic visions of THE WANDERINGS OF OISIN (1889) and the intellectual, often obscure poetry of the 1930s, Yeats produced a tremendous amount of works. In his early career Yeats studied William Blake's poems, Emanuel Swedenborg's writings and other visionaries. Later he expressed his disillusionment with the reality of his native country. Central theme in Yeats's poems is Ireland, its bitter history, folklore, and contemporary public life.

《班磅礴山麓下》是爱尔兰诗人叶芝的墓志铭

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swear by what the sages spoke round the mareotic lake that the witch of atlas knew, spoke and set the cocks a-crow.

swear by those horsemen, by those women complexion and form prove superhuman, that pale, long-visaged company that air in immortality completeness of their passions won; now they ride the wintry dawn where ben bulben sets the scene.

here's the gist of what they mean.