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09-01-2002, 02:49 PM
A. E. Stallings
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According to my battered Norton anthology, Yeats' poem was "suggested by a sonnet of the 16th-century French poet Pierre de Ronsard" (am not familiar with the poem myself). Perhaps "inspired by" or "after" rather than "translation"...
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