A 1978 novel by Andrew Holleran is titled after a line that this author wrote in a poem that describes the title characters' wonder at a "sixty-year-old smiling public man" interrupting their attempts to "learn to cipher and to sing".
A 1978 novel by Andrew Holleran is titled after a line that this author wrote in a poem that describes the title characters' wonder at a "sixty-year-old smiling public man" interrupting their attempts to "learn to cipher and to sing". This man's Last Poems concludes with a short lyric about what a "travelled man" and a "politician" say about "war and war's alarms" entitled "Politics", which appears immediately after a poem by this man that begins "I sought a theme and sought for it in vain" and ends with this man "[lying] down where all the ladders start". This poet of "The (*) Circus Animals' Desertion" asked "how can we know the dancer from the dance?" at the end of his poem "Among School Children". He wrote of the "widening gyre" of a falcon's flight in a poem in which a "rough beast" "slouches towards Bethlehem to be born". For 10 points, name this Irish poet of "The Second Coming".
A 1978 novel by Andrew Holleran is titled after a line that this author wrote in a poem that describes the title characters' wonder at a "sixty-year-old smiling public man" interrupting their attempts to "learn to cipher and to sing".
William Butler Yeats