A stunning facsimile of the 1919 first edition of William Butler Yeats's The Wild Swans at Coole an elegant volume showcasing these poems as they would have first been read and a complement to facsimile editions The Winding Stair and The Tower. Published in 1919 during W.B. Yeats's "middle stage" and composed of poems written during World War I, The Wild Swans at Coole is contemplative and elegiac. This collection captures Yeats at a time when he was looking back on his life, coming to terms with the realities of modern war, reflecting on lost love, and...
A stunning facsimile of the 1919 first edition of William Butler Yeats's The Wild Swans at Coole an elegant volume showcasing these poems as th...