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Jun 13 • 11 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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Happy Birthday, William Butler Yeats, born June 13, 1865.

His poems possess a lyricism and emotional intensity that is nonpareil and an insight into the modern world that often feels prophetic.

A thread of excerpts from my favorite W.B. Yeats poems: 🧵👇 1933 photographic portrait of William Butler Yeats, copyright not renewed, public domain. Courtesy Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Online Catalog.
10. When You Are Old, by W.B. Yeats (1893) Image
9. No Second Troy, by W.B. Yeats (1916) Image
8. from The Stolen Child, by W.B. Yeats (1899) Image
7. The Lake Isle of Innisfree, by W.B. Yeats (1890) Image
6. Never Give All the Heart, by W.B. Yeats Image
5. from Easter, 1916, by W.B. Yeats (1916) Image
4. from Sailing to Byzantium, by W.B. Yeats (1927) Image
3. Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, by W.B. Yeats (1899) Image
2. An Irish Airman foresees his Death, by W.B. Yeats (1919) Image
1. The Second Coming by W. B. Yeats (1920) Image

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Jun 14
Twelve of Literature's Most Underrated Classics (from your suggestions).

A thread: 🧵👇 The good book by Federico Zandomeneghi, 1897
But first: most of these books are highly (and properly) esteemed.

They just have fallen off mainstream classics reading lists.

So, when I declare these titles "underrated," that's all I mean -- that they're often overlooked and not as widely read as they should be. Man holding book by Rogier van der Weyden, c.1440 - c.1449
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A defiant young woman flees her dissolute husband, sparking scandal and intrigue in a quiet village.

Overshadowed by her more acclaimed sisters, Anne was a bold writer, and this novel was ahead of its time. Painting by Branwell Brontë, c 1833. Sources disagree whether this image is of Emily or Anne.
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Jun 5
"A gentleman never hurts anyone's feelings, 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺," Oscar Wilde once wrote.

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24. “He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him.” - A House of Pomegranates
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Jun 4
It's been said that C.S. Lewis possessed "the rare gift of being able to make righteousness readable."

A thread of some of his most memorable quotes.

Which is your favorite? 🧵👇 Briton Rivière: Una and the Lion, bef. 1920
1. "There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal."
2. "We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honour and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful."
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May 29
Today is G.K. Chesterton's birthday, May 29, 1874.

Let's get him trending today.

In this thread, I have collected 25 of his best-loved quotes.

Which is your favorite? Share it, tell me about it, or post your own. 🧵👇 Image
“A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.”

~G.K. Chesterton
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"The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried."

~G.K. Chesterton
2/ Image
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May 27
Poet Wilfred Owen was killed-in-action in 1918, one week before the First World War's end.

Among his papers was found, unfinished, what would become the preface to his posthumous poetry collection.

Read on, for a Memorial Day thread on the War Poets: 🧵👇 Field with Poppies by Van Gogh, 1890
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"This book is not about heroes.

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"Above all, this book is not concerned with Poetry.

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It is full of gold.

I've panned it for you and picked out 9 golden nuggets: 🧵👇 Image
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Dig it out for yourself." Scholar of Natural Sciences by Carl Spitzweg
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