W.B. Yeats

>>7732010
>Lake Isle of Innisfree

tf

>>7732027
He was Irish and wrote about Irish things, he was very active in the Gaelic revival

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Definitely not.

I find that each chapter of Finnegans Wake can be taken alone as a canto.

In fact, in conversation with my friends (usually over espresso), I prefer to refer to Finnegans wake as "The Cantos of Jim Joyce".

"Jim" because I feel that I've developed something of a bond with the bespectacled Irishman. You see, on my mother's side we're Irish. Imagine what it would be like having a mustache like his. I close my eyes and, when I concentrate, I can feel the tickle of whiskers, like a trace of pepper caught in the steam rising off of my grandmother's mashed potatoes-- caught, drawn in by my breath to rest just inside my left nostril and sending my nose into a nervous little wiggle.