A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety explained

"A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety" is a poem written by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats,^[1] first published in his 1938 collection New Poems. The poem begins with the lines:

Cultural influences

The poem is set to music by Elvis Costello and is featured in the bonus disc of the album Brutal Youth.

Notes and References

1. Greenlaw . Duncan . 'Preying on Foresaid Remains': Irish Identity, Obituaries, and the Limits of Mourning . Mosaic: An Interdisciplinary Critical Journal . 2001 . 34 . 4 . 123–144 . 0027-1276.