What do battles – some battles, anyway - ok then, ONE battle - have to do with dentists?

In my craft or sullen art

Exercised in the still night

When only the moon rages

Dylan Thomas, one of the poets featured.

Even without music certain lyrics sing. What is this quality? Yeats doesn’t have it; Blake does. Well, of course this needs to be qualified, of course it does: so, better to say that Yeats has a rather self-conscious lyricism, that the singing doesn’t often feel fully spontaneous, that it’s a little bit arch, a little bit art song