W.B. Yeats

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is terribly dull. To read his own verses is as excruciating a torture as anyone could be exposed to.

To read his own verses was as excruciating a torture as anyone could be exposed to

is a poet who looks, in his old cloak, like a huge umbrella left behind by some picnic party.

He looks himself in his old cloak like a huge umbrella left behind by some picnic party

is a writer whose books, like the books of poetry by young writers. are usually promissory notes that are never met.