Thread: Yeats or Keats who is the better poet?
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Unread 07-23-2013, 10:48 AM
Tim Murphy Tim Murphy is offline
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Keats was fabulously talented, but Yeats is the greater poet. He lived to a ripe old age and playing so central a role in his country, he just had a lot more life experience to impart. And of course King Billy left us a far larger body of work.
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