#Sixteen Dead Men #### Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition ### Background details and bibliographic information Sixteen Dead Men ================ Author: William Butler Yeats ---------------------------- ### File Description Electronic edition compiled and proof-read by Beatrix Färber, Rebecca Daly Funded by School of History, University College, Cork 1. First draft.Extent of text: 670 words#### Publication CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College, Cork College Road, Cork, Ireland—http://www.ucc.ie/celt (2014) Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland. Text ID Number: E910001-060Availability [RESTRICTED] The works by W. B. Yeats are in the public domain. This electronic text is available with prior consent of the CELT programme for purposes of private or academic research and teaching. #### Notes Written on 17 December 1916 or 1917; first published in *The Dial* in November 1920 (A. Norman Jeffares, p. 229). #### Sources **Literature (a small selection)**2. W. B. Yeats, The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats, consisting of Reveries over childhood and youth, The trembling of the veil, and Dramatis personae (New York 1938). 3. Richard Ellmann, Yeats: The Man and the Masks. Corrected edition with a new preface (Oxford 1979). [First published New York 1948; reprinted London 1961.] 4. Peter Allt and Russell K. Alspach, The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W.B. Yeats (New York: Macmillan 1957). 5. W. B. Yeats, Essays and Introductions (New York: Macmillan 1961). 6. W. B. Yeats, Explorations: selected by Mrs W. B. Yeats (London/New York: Macmillan 1962). 7. Richard Ellmann, The Identity of Yeats (New York 1964). 8. A. Norman Jeffares, A New Commentary on the Poems of W.B. Yeats (Stanford 1984). 9. A general bibliography is available online at the official web site of the Nobel Prize. See: http://nobelprize.org/nobel\_prizes/literature/laureates/1923/yeats-bibl.html **The edition used in the digital edition**2. William Butler Yeats Sixteen Dead Men in , Ed. Richard J. Finneran The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Macmillan Press, London, (1991) pages 184–185 ### Encoding #### Project Description CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts #### Sampling Declaration The whole poem. #### Editorial Declaration ##### Correction The text has been proof-read twice. ##### Normalization The electronic text represents the edited text. ##### Hyphenation The editorial practice of the hard-copy editor has been retained. ##### Segmentation div0= the individual poem, stanzas are marked lg. ##### Interpretation Names of persons (given names), and places are not tagged. Terms for cultural and social roles are not tagged. ### Profile Description Created: (17 December 1916 or 1917) #### Use of language ##### Language: [EN] The poem is in English. ### Revision History * (2014-05-02) Beatrix Färber (ed.) * TEI header created with bibliographical detail. File parsed and validated; SGML and HTML files created. * (2014-05-01) Rebecca Daly (ed.) * Structural markup applied according to CELT practice. * (1996) Students at the CELT Project, UCC (ed.) * First proofing. * (1996) Donnchadh Ó Corráin (data capture) * Text captured --- #### Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: E910001-060 ### Sixteen Dead Men: Author: William Butler Yeats --- p.184 1. O but we talked at large before The sixteen men were shot, But who can talk of give and take, What should be and what not While those dead men are loitering there To stir the boiling pot? --- p.185 4. You say that we should still the land Till Germany's overcome; But who is there to argue that Now Pearse is deaf and dumb? And is their logic to outweigh MacDonagh's bony thumb? 5. How could you dream they'd listen That have an ear alone For those new comrades they have found, Lord Edward and Wolfe Tone, Or meddle with our give and take That converse bone to bone?