W. B. Yeats' "Adam's Curse"
The Daily Poem
Goldberry Studios
4.6 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 14 June 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Today’s poem is by William Butler Yeats[a] (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939), an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and politician. One of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature, he was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish literary establishment who helped to found the Abbey Theatre. In his later years, he served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923.
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| 0:51.6 | here's today's episode. Welcome back to the Daily Poem, a podcast from Goldberry Studios. I'm David Kern, and today is Monday, June 12th, 2003. Today's poem is by William Butler |
| 0:58.7 | Yates, W.B. Yates, who was born on June 13th, 1865, and died in January of 1939. So his birthday |
| 1:06.5 | is tomorrow. He was an Irish writer. He wrote poetry, drama, wrote about politics, |
| 1:14.0 | real literature, and is one of the most important literary figures of the 20th century. |
| 1:18.8 | Gates had a long and influential career that was capped, I suppose, by his receiving the Nobel Prize |
| 1:25.5 | in literature in 1923. So certainly one of the most notable and |
| 1:29.6 | important figures of the last 150 years or so in literature. Very influential, and you'll |
| 1:36.8 | recognize many of his poems. And the poem that I'm going to read today, some of you may know, |
| 1:41.0 | but for many of you, it also might be a new one, which I like to find for a poem. |
| 1:46.5 | A poet is notable as Yates. |
| 1:47.9 | I like to try to occasionally find some that not everybody has studied in school. |
| 1:53.3 | So this is Adam's Curse by William Biler-Yates. |
| 1:57.3 | I'll read it once, offer some brief comments, and then read it again. |
| 2:04.6 | Okay. I'll read it once, offer some brief comments, and then read it again. We sat together at one summer's end, that beautiful mild woman, your close friend, and you and I, |
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