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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."

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.