William Butler Yeats Best Poems - April 2024

Selected Poems And Four Plays of William Butler Yeats

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The Yeats Reader: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Prose

Throughout his long life, William Butler Yeats -- Irish writer and premier lyric poet in English in this century -- produced important works in every literary genre, works of astonishing range, energy, erudition, beauty, and skill. His early poetry is memorable and moving. His poems and plays of middle age address the human condition with language that has entered our vocabulary for cataclysmic personal and world events. The writings of his final years offer wisdom, courage, humor, and sheer technical virtuosity. T. S. Eliot pronounced Yeats "the greatest poet of our time -- certainly the grea... [Read More]

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Yeats's Poetry, Drama, and Prose (Norton Critical Editions)

This brand new collection, impeccably edited by James Pethica, presents a comprehensive selection of Yeats's major contributions in poetry, drama, prose fiction, autobiography, and criticism. "Criticism" includes twenty-four interpretive essays by T. S. Eliot, Daniel Albright, Douglas Archibald, Harold Bloom, George Bornstein, Elizabeth Cullingford, Paul de Man, Richard Ellman, R. F. Foster, Stephen Gwynn, Seamus Heaney, Marjorie Howes, John Kelly, Declan Kiberd, Lucy McDiarmid, Michael North, Thomas Parkinson, Marjorie Perloff, James Pethica, Jahan Ramazani, Ronald Schuchard, Michael J. Sidne... [Read More]

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• ISBN: 0393974979
• Brand: Yeats, W. B./ Pethica, James (EDT)/ Pethica, James
• Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore (Celtic, Irish)

Best known for his poetry, William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) was also a dedicated exponent of Irish folklore. Yeats took a particular interest in the tales' mythic and magical roots. The Celtic Twilight ventures into the eerie and puckish world of fairies, ghosts, and spirits. "This handful of dreams," as the author referred to it, first appeared in 1893, and its title refers to the pre-dawn hours, when the Druids performed their rituals. It consists of stories recounted to the poet by his friends, neighbors, and acquaintances. Yeats' faithful transcription of their narratives includes his ow... [Read More]

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• Manufacturer: Dover Publications

Collected Poems (Macmillan Collector's Library Book 13)

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Best-Loved Yeats: William Butler Yeats

I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams … Some of the most famous lines in Irish poetry come from the pen of William Butler Yeats, poet, patriot, dramatist and senator. This illustrated collection of forty of his best-loved works, on Love, Politics, Old Age, Myth and Legend includes people, places and events that were important to him.

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A Poet to His Beloved: The Early Love Poems of William Butler Yeats

As a young man, William Butler Yeats was deeply affected by the idea of romantic love, or, as he called it, "the old high way of love." Characteristically, much of his early poetry that which was written prior to 1910, is poetry that belongs to courtship.When Yeats was twenty-three years old, he met and fell in love with the beautiful Irish nationalist, Maud Gonne. Although she repeatedly refused to marry Yeats, Maud would become the object of his passion and his poetry. The emotional power in many of Yeats' early poems is shaped by the one-sidedness of his affair with Maud, but the poems them... [Read More]

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• ISBN: 9780312619862
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• Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press

Yeats: The Man and the Masks

The definitive biography of William Butler Yeats The most influential poet of his age, Yeats eluded the grasp of many who sought to explain him. In this classic critical examination of the poet, Richard Ellmann strips away the masks of his subject: occultist, senator of the Irish Free State, libidinous old man, and Nobel Prize winner.

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• Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

Poetry for Young People: William Butler Yeats

He was the finest modern poet in the English language--plus a playwright, theatre manager, politician, and passionate believer in supernatural. William Butler Yeats' writing captures all the magic and mystery of his native Ireland, and here are some 26 of his finest, most mesmerizing verses. In "The Stolen Child," fairies come in the night to entice a boy away forever to "where the wave of moonlight glosses the dim grey sands with light." Yeats claimed that a Greek folk song inspired "The Song of Wandering Aengus": the excerpt here follows Aengus on his quest to locate an enchanted girl. Visio... [Read More]

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• Brand: Sterling Publishing
• Manufacturer: Sterling

Early Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)

One of the greatest poets of any century, the Nobel laureate William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) drew upon Irish folklore and myth as inspiration for much of his early poetry. Mythic themes as well as many other topics are masterfully explored in this rich selection of 134 lyrics chiefly selected from six volumes of verse published between 1889 and 1914. Among the poems included are "The Stolen Child" and "Down by the Salley Gardens" (Crossways, 1889); "To the Rose upon the Rood of Time," "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," "When You Are Old," and "To Ireland in the Coming Times" (The Rose, 1893); "T... [Read More]

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The Very Best of William Butler Yeats

Here are 24 of Yeats' finest poems, read by Siobhan McKenna, V.C. Clinton-Baddeley, Cyril Cusack, and Michael MacLiammoir.

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The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiographies

Autobiographies consists of six autobiographical works that William Butler Yeats published together in the mid-1930s to form a single, extraordinary memoir of the first fifty-eight years of his life, from his earliest memories of childhood to winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. This volume provides a vivid series of personal accounts of a wide range of figures, and it describes Yeats's work as poet and playwright, as a founder of Dublin's famed Abbey Theatre, his involvement with Irish nationalism, and his fascination with occultism and visions. This book is most compelling as Yeats's own ... [Read More]

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• Brand: Touchstone
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A Yeats Dictionary: Persons and Places in the Poetry of William Butler Yeats (Irish Studies)

This is the first dictionary to identify, chart, and explain in context the many proper names and place names that so famously enrich the poetry of William Butler Yeats and, just as famously, anchor that poetry to Ireland. In compiling this work, Lester I. Conner has relied upon Yeats's own prose, the principal Yeats criticism, and the writings of Yeats's friends and critics. The result is a work that warmly ushers us into the poems, where we find we are not strangers after all.

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• ISBN: 081562770X
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• Manufacturer: Syracuse University Press

"Easter 1916" and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)

"A terrible beauty is born," observed the greatest modern Irish poet after his country's 1916 Easter Rebellion against the British. This streak of proud nationalism, interwoven with elements of Celtic lore and mysticism, and infused with a hard-earned wisdom, makes Yeats's works resonate to this day. His career spanned five decades, earning him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923, and he is widely regarded as the finest English-language poet of the twentieth century.This volume contains a rich selection of poems from Yeat's mature work, including all the poems from The Wild Swans at Coole (1... [Read More]

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• ISBN: 9780486297712
• Manufacturer: Dover Publications

The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats by William Butler Yeats (1996-09-09)

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• Manufacturer: Scribner; 2nd Revised edition (1996-09-09)

The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume I: The Poems : Revised Second Edition

Gathers all of the poems by the Irish writer, including reworkings of Irish myths and meditations on youth, love, nature, art, and

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• Rating: 4.8

W. B. Yeats: Poems - Audiobook

This compelling collection spans Yeats's career: from the poems of his early years, which display his interest in Irish myths and his hopeless passion for Irish patriot Maud Gonne, to the soaring, majestic poems of

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The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats Characters by William Butler Yeats Summary & Study Guide - eBook

This study guide includes the following sections: Plot Summary, Chapter Summaries & Analysis, Characters, Objects/Places, Themes, Style, Quotes, and Topics for

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The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume I: The Poems - eBook

The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats includes all of the poems authorized by Yeats for inclusion in his standard canon. Breathtaking in range, it encompasses the entire arc of his career, from luminous reworkings

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Gitanjali : A Collection of Indian Poems by the Nobel Laureate

Gathers more than one hundred poems that deal with the pleasures and pains of life's experiences by the Nobel Prize-winning Indian

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Selected Poems And Four Plays

Remaining the definitive selection of W.B. Yeats's finest work, this revised edition of M.L. Rosenthal's classic selection od 211 of Yeats's poems and four of his plays represents the essential achievement of Ireland's greatest lyric

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"Easter 1916" and Other Poems

Compilation of all the poems from The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) and Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) includes "The Second Coming," "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death," many

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Early Poems

Rich selection of 134 poems published between 1889 and 1914: "Lake Isle of Innisfree," "When You Are Old," "Down by the Salley Gardens," many more. Note. Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines. Includes a

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Responsibilities and Other Poems - eBook

"Responsibilities and Other Poems" is a 1916 collection of poetry by Yeats. William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 - 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the most prolific literary figures of

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The Poetical Works of William B. Yeats V2 : Dramatical Poems

The Poetical Works of William B. Yeats

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