Talk:Blood and the Moon

A fact from Blood and the Moon appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 17 November 2009 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that "Blood and the Moon" is a poem written by Irish poet William Butler Yeats in 1928 in response to the 1927 assassination of Kevin O'Higgins, the Vice President of the Free State?

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Shape on the page[edit]

"... the poem is arranged on the page to visually represent the images described in the text." I can't recall the conventional name used in describing poems by metaphysical poets that employ this device. George Herbert's "The Altar" is a classic example, and Wikipedia has an incorrectly titled article stub "Altar poem" that needs to be worked on and linked to this statement in a footnote.--Wetman (talk) 23:38, 12 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I know there is a word for it, but I was a bit lazy and didn't look too hard; there also needs to be an expansion of several of the sections, but I just tried to get it started Mrathel (talk) 04:44, 13 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Winding Stair and Other Poems[edit]

According to The Winding Stair and Other Poems, the collection was first published in 1933, not 1929 as this article suggests. There is no source for it though. 94.194.23.112 (talk) 16:04, 17 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

yeah I think it was 1933, I found a reference but i couldn't say if it is relaible or not. [1]. Tsange ^►talk 16:09, 17 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I came across that too. However, The Winding Stair was printed in a limited edition version in 1929 and later reprinted in 1933.[2] Mrathel (talk) 02:11, 18 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I might have misread that; I need to check to see if this poem was in the collection printed in 1929:) It may very well be added with the Other Poems" of the 1933 title:)

I can't find a source with the table of contents for The Winding Stair(1929) and obviously can't find the text, but this source says it contained only the first five works of the 1933 edition, and it is the 4th work, by my count, in the edition linked before mine. Mrathel (talk) 02:23, 18 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I just looked at the Vendler text, and it states that it was published in The Winding Stair 1929. Sorry for the confusion. Mrathel (talk) 02:27, 18 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]