#The Fascination of what's Difficult #### Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition ### Background details and bibliographic information The Fascination of what's Difficult =================================== Author: William Butler Yeats ---------------------------- ### File Description Electronic edition compiled and proof-read by Beatrix Färber, Juliette Maffet Funded by School of History, University College, Cork 1. First draft.Extent of text: 511 words#### Publication CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts: a project of University College, Cork College Road, Cork, Ireland—http://www.ucc.ie/celt (2012) Distributed by CELT online at University College, Cork, Ireland. Text ID Number: E910001-041Availability [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. #### Sources **Bibliography**2. A 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 The Fascination of what's Difficult in , Ed. William Butler Yeats Responsibilities and other Poems. The Macmillan Company, New York, (1916) page 99–100 ### Encoding #### Project Description CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts #### Sampling Declaration The whole selection. #### Editorial Declaration ##### Correction Text has been proof-read twice. ##### Normalization The electronic text represents the edited text. Lines (or parts of them) reproduced in italics in the printed edition are tagged hi rend="ital". ##### 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: By William Butler Yeats (1865–1939). Date range: before 1916.#### Use of language ##### Language: [EN] The poem is in English. ### Revision History * (2012-02-15) Beatrix Färber (ed.) * File proofed (2), additions to encoding made; header completed; file parsed; SGML and HTML files created. * (2012-02-01) Juliette Maffet (ed.) * Header created. * (2012-01-23) Juliette Maffet (ed.) * First proofing. * (2012-01-18) Juliette Maffet (file capture) * Text captured by scanning. --- #### Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition: E910001-041 ### The Fascination of what's Difficult: Author: William Butler Yeats --- p.99 1. The fascination of what's difficult Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent Spontaneous joy and natural content Out of my heart. There's something ails our colt That must, as if it had not holy blood, Nor on an Olympus leaped from cloud to cloud, Shiver under the lash, strain, sweat and jolt As though it dragged road metal. My curse on plays That have to be set up in fifty ways, On the day's war with every knave and dolt, --- p.100 Theatre business, management of men. I swear before the dawn comes round again I'll find the stable and pull out the bolt.