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To a Poet, who would have me Praise Certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine
Author: William Butler Yeats
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Electronic edition compiled and proof-read by Beatrix Färber, Juliette Maffet
Funded by School of History, University College, Cork
1. First draft.
Extent of text: 471 words
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CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College, Cork
College Road, Cork, Irelandhttp://www.ucc.ie/celt (2012) Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland.
Text ID Number: E910001-045
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The works by W. B. Yeats are in the public domain. This electronic text is available with prior consent of the CELT programme for purposes of private or academic research and teaching.
Sources
Bibliography- A 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 To a Poet, who would have me Praise Certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine in , Ed. William Butler Yeats Responsibilities and other Poems. The Macmillan Company, New York, (1916) page 104
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CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts
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Profile Description
Created: By William Butler Yeats (18651939).
Date range: before 1916.
Use of language
Language: [EN] The poem is in English.
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Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: E910001-045
To a Poet, who would have me Praise Certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine: Author: William Butler Yeats
p.104
- You say, as I have often given tongue
In praise of what another's said or sung,
'Twere politic to do the like by these;
But have you known a dog to praise his fleas?