The Poetry of Yeats - 2 - A Yeatsian Miscellany torrent

We were the last romantics - chose for theme
Traditional sanctity and loveliness;
Whatever's written in what poets name
The book of the people; whatever most can bless
The mind of man or elevate a rhyme;
But all is changed, that high horse riderless,
Though mounted in that saddle Homer rode
Where the swan drifts upon a darkening flood. 

Yeats read by those close in time and spirit to the poet - Michael MacLiammoir, V.C Clinton-Baddeley, Dylan Thomas, Cyril Cusack, Basil Bunting, Siobhan McKenna, W.B himself and one or two others. A classic account, full of character, in all the pleasant accents of the British Isles.