“…32 The collaboration that Yeats initiated with the BBC generated more than just broadcast programs: several poems from this period were broadcast before appearing in print, notably "For Anne Gregory, " "Roger Casement, " "Come on to the Hills of the Mourne, " "Sweet Dancer, " and "The Curse of Cromwell. " 33 When writing for The Listener-the BBC publication conceived to complement the Radio Times, which aimed to initiate fruitful discussions of broadcasting-Yeats also produced a slightly different kind of journalism. The text of a planned broadcast entitled "I Became an Author, " published in The Listener in August 1938, is a remarkably candid confession, which comes across as a sequel of sorts to another Listener essay from 1934, "The Growth of a Poet, " and other texts in which Yeats returns to his career as a poet.…”