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A Coat

W. B. Yeats

First published 1950
Type Poem

In this poem, Yeats renounces the mythological and folkloric motifs that he used in his earlier poetry, saying that they have been debased by too many imitators.

First published in Poetry (Chicago), May 1914.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1950 The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats Macmillan Collection 142