Life
[?-?; Senchan Torpéist]; early Irish druidic poet.
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Notes
Hugh Kenner, A Colder Eye (p.81), in remarks on Yeats’s phrase ‘the rhyme the rats hear’ in “Parnell’s Funeral”, indicates that T. R. Henn points to Shakespeare's line in As You Like It: ‘I was never so berhymed since Pythagoras’ time that I was an Irish rat which I can hardly remember’, and notes that the Halliday 1856 Edn. of the play cites Irish bard Senchan Torpest as killing 10 rats at Gort (For source , Kenner refers to A. N. Jeffares, A New Commentary on the Poems of W. B. Yeats., 1984, p.344.)
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