W.B. Yeats' life spanned the end of the 19th & the beginning of the 20th century, & his poetry reflects all the turmoil, fervour, traditions & revolutions of that period. This collection shows the impact of a great poet whose startling relevance to our own times grows more & more evident.
W.B. Yeats' life spanned the end of the 19th & the beginning of the 20th century, & his poetry reflects all the turmoil, fervour, traditions & revolut...
Edited with a view to presenting a close approximation to the sacred book Yeats hoped to bequeath to the world, his poems are accompanied here by detailed explanatory notes and a long introductory essay.
Edited with a view to presenting a close approximation to the sacred book Yeats hoped to bequeath to the world, his poems are accompanied here by deta...
A leader of the 20th-century Irish nationalist movement, William Butler Yeats is also among that nation's greatest poets. This selection includes poetry from every period of his life, dealing with: love, death, old age, ambition, the poet's craft, and the history and destiny of Ireland.
A leader of the 20th-century Irish nationalist movement, William Butler Yeats is also among that nation's greatest poets. This selection includes poet...
By turns joyful and despairing, this title presents some of the twentieth century's greatest verse on fleeting youth, fervent hopes and futile sacrifice.
By turns joyful and despairing, this title presents some of the twentieth century's greatest verse on fleeting youth, fervent hopes and futile sacrifi...
As well as being one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is the greatest lyric poet that Ireland has produced. He was the acknowledged leader of the Irish Literary Renaissance, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. His early lyrical poetry includes 'When You are Old', 'The Cloths of Heaven' and 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' but, unusually for a poet, Yeats's later work surpasses the poems of his youth. This volume contains all the poems from the 1933 edition of Collected Poems, the last anthology to be...
As well as being one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is the greatest lyric poet that Irela...
