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To read The Stolen Child is to realize both that Mr. Yeats brought a new and delicate music into literature and that his genius had its birth in a sense of the beauty of common things. Even when in his early poems the adjectives seem to be chosen with the too delicate care of an artist, as when he notes how in autumnal solitudes Arise the leopard-coloured trees,
his observation of the world about him is but proved the more conclusively. The trees in autumn are leopard-coloured, though a poet cannot say so without becoming dangerously ornamental. What I have written so far, however, might convey the impression that in Mr. Yeats's poetry we have a child's rather than a man's vision at work.
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