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Originally posted by robert mezey:
By the way, don't you think Yeats was a lousy reader, those of you who have heard the few things recorded? It takes a kind of genius to mess up as good a poem as "The Lake Isle of Innisfree."
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Timothy Steele goes so far as to suggest that one of the motivating forces in the develolpment of free verse was the style of reading practiced by the late Victorians--and Yeats was one of 'em.