In the Poet to Poet series, a contemporary poet advocates a poet of the past or present whom they have particularly admired. By their selection of verses and their critical reactions, the selectors offer intriguing insights into their own work. Here, Seamus Heaney selects W.B. Yeats.
In the Poet to Poet series, a contemporary poet advocates a poet of the past or present whom they have particularly admired. By their selection of ver...
W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) was not only Ireland's greatest poet but one of the most influential voices in world literature in the 20th century. His extraordinary work, in the words of this volume's editor Seamus Heaney, encourages us 'to be more resolutely and abundantly alive, whatever the conditions'.
W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) was not only Ireland's greatest poet but one of the most influential voices in world literature in the 20th century. His extrao...
With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.
W. B. Yeats was Romantic and Modernist, mystical dreamer and leader of the Irish Literary Revival, Nobel prizewinner, dramatist and, above all, poet. He began writing with the intention of putting his 'very self' into his poems. T. S. Eliot, one of many who proclaimed the Irishman's greatness, described him as 'one of those few whose history is the history of their own time, who are part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them'. For anyone...
With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.
The present selection traces the development of Yeats's verse, encompassing the poet's interest in Irish folklore and national identity, his engagement with the political situation of his day and the rich symbolism that is the hallmark of his work and a reflection of his lifelong fascination with the occult. It contains some of his best-known pieces, including the elegiac 'Easter 1916', the apocalyptic 'The Second Coming' and the reflective and spiritual 'Sailing to Byzantium'.
Often radical in content but always traditional in form, these poems are by turns startling and affecting,...
The present selection traces the development of Yeats's verse, encompassing the poet's interest in Irish folklore and national identity, his engage...
