The Tales of Red Hanrahan are imitation folk stories marinated in pre-Raphaelitism and self pity. There were a lot of writers turning out this sort of thing in the 1890s but only Yeats went on to become a major 20th century poet. The Hanrahan stories have charm, but are mostly of interest because of Hanrahan's appearance as a semi-mythical figure in Yeats' great mid-life crisis poem "The Tower". The Hanrahan of The Tower is an earthier, more dynamic figure than his earlier incarnation- but then "old lecher" wasn't a phrase that existed in the lexicon of the Rhymer's Club.
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Heading North
We're heading north for the weekend. Two birds with one stone. We'll be going to watch two of our granddaughters perform in an am-dram…
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Transition
I cut the grass. Or, rather, I cut some of the grass and then the lawnmower fell apart. So we went out and bought a new one. The old one was a…
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Eating My Words
A year ago I opined here in LJ 1. That the US President seemed to know what he was doing. 2. That the Epstein kerfuffle was done and dusted. 3.…
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