Today’s poem is W B Yeats’s powerful sonnet on Leda and the swan, showing that he could be inspired by classical, as well as celtic, myth. Read the poem here.
Today’s new poets are the Irishman W B Yeats and the German language Romanian poet Paul Celan. The poem by Yeats is his prophetic work of 1919, The Second Coming, with a link to a YouTube reading by the late Ted Hughes. From Celan’s poet page there is a link to his own recording of his great Holocaust poem, Todesfüge, with an English translation.
Listen to Yeats’s melancholy and beautiful poem “The Wild Swans at Coole” read by Harry McFarland here.
