Sixteen Dead Men

]> Sixteen Dead Men An electronic edition William Butler Yeats Electronic edition compiled and proof-read by Beatrix Färber Rebecca Daly School of History, University College, Cork First draft. 670 CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College, Cork

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Written on 17 December 1916 or 1917; first published in The Dial in November 1920 (A. Norman Jeffares, p. 229). Literature (a small selection) W. B. Yeats, The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats, consisting of Reveries over childhood and youth, The trembling of the veil, and Dramatis personae (New York 1938). Richard Ellmann, Yeats: The Man and the Masks. Corrected edition with a new preface (Oxford 1979). [First published New York 1948; reprinted London 1961.] Peter Allt and Russell K. Alspach, The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W.B. Yeats (New York: Macmillan 1957). W. B. Yeats, Essays and Introductions (New York: Macmillan 1961). W. B. Yeats, Explorations: selected by Mrs W. B. Yeats (London/New York: Macmillan 1962). Richard Ellmann, The Identity of Yeats (New York 1964). A. Norman Jeffares, A New Commentary on the Poems of W.B. Yeats (Stanford 1984). A general bibliography is available online at the official web site of the Nobel Prize. See: http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1923/yeats-bibl.html The edition used in the digital edition William Butler Yeats Sixteen Dead Men Richard J. Finneran The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats Macmillan Press London 1991 184–185

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17 December 1916 or 1917 The poem is in English. literary poetry Easter Rising 1916 W. B. Yeats 20c 2014-05-02 Beatrix Färber ed. TEI header created with bibliographical detail. File parsed and validated; SGML and HTML files created. 2014-05-01 Rebecca Daly ed. Structural markup applied according to CELT practice. 1996 Students at the CELT Project, UCC ed. First proofing. 1996 Donnchadh Ó Corráin data capture Text captured Sixteen Dead Men O but we talked at large before The sixteen men were shot, But who can talk of give and take, What should be and what not While those dead men are loitering there To stir the boiling pot? You say that we should still the land Till Germany's overcome; But who is there to argue that Now Pearse is deaf and dumb? And is their logic to outweigh MacDonagh's bony thumb? How could you dream they'd listen That have an ear alone For those new comrades they have found, Lord Edward and Wolfe Tone, Or meddle with our give and take That converse bone to bone?