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In recent years, there’s been more discussion of Yeats and his favorable view towards fascism. I realize this is briefly touched upon (and buried deep) in this article, but given recent scholarship, I think more needs to be said. Viriditas (talk) 19:49, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
Literally almost every person, living or dead, real or mythological, has an infobox. What makes W.B Yeats so special where he doesn't deserve an infobox like the rest? 2601:2C7:67F:C8F0:8E2:CEFC:D4F0:11C1 (talk) 14:22, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
but gives no indication at all that he ever wrote a line of poetry. Amazing
Maybe you spend your time looking at politicians or sportspeople.
At the end of the section on Yeats' political views, there is the following sentence: 'D. P. Moran called him a minor poet and "crypto-Protestant conman.' I don't understand how this is relevant to Yeats' political views. The sentence as such only appears to express views on Yeats' literary merit, degree of religious orthodoxy and general moral character. If the idea is that a negative comment by Moran, given Moran's own political positions, is somehow diagnostic of what political position the disliked person had, this is surely too far-fetched. If Moran did say more about Yeats' politics specifically, then that is what should be quoted/retold, not just this quote. 87.126.21.225 (talk) 20:08, 24 September 2023 (UTC)
This information was removed from the article: American composer Marjorie Rusche used Yeats’ text for her song “ An Irish Airman Foresees His Death.” (reference: https://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_settings.html?ComposerId=29688) T. E. Meeks (talk) 21:19, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
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