The Municipal Gallery Revisited Comments
AROUND me the images of thirty years:
An ambush; pilgrims at the water-side;
Casement upon trial, half hidden by the bars,
Guarded; Griffith staring in hysterical pride;
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Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.
Oh Liz, lighten up! Seinfeld, introducing Keats to lots of people who will then go on and look the poem up - surely a good thing. I love it.
Ugh, to defile the most amazing poem of all time by using it on Seinfeld. I think I'm going to be sick.
The last two lines of the poem were used in the popular 90's television show 'Seinfeld'. Kramer used the lines in Elain's birthday card. Season 2, The Deal.
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8/3/2025 9:18:40 AM # 1.0.0
In the Seinfeld episode “The Deal, ” Yeats is misquoted. In that episode, the last line of Yeat’s poem is read as stating, “... I had such a friend.” Yeats wrote, “... I had such friends.” I was not familiar with the quote until hearing it read (or should I say, “misread”) during the Seinfeld episode. Hearing it made me look up the source and read the entire poem in order to better understand what the author was describing.