Author: William Butler YeatsPublisher:
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CLASSICS Eleven Plays of William Butler Yeats
Author: William Butler YeatsEleven Plays of William Butler Yeats
Author: William Butler YeatsThe Major Works
Author: William Butler YeatsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780192842831
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
This authoritative edition was first published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Yeats's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by plays, critical writings, and letters - to give theessence of his work and thinking.W. B. Yeats was born in 1865, only 38 years after the death of William Blake, and died in 1939, the contemporary of Ezra Pound and James Joyce. His career crossed two centuries, and this volume represents the full range of his achievement, from the Romantic early poems of Crossways and thesymbolist masterpiece The Wind Among the Reeds to his last poems. Myth and folk-tale influence both his poems and his plays, represented here by Cathleen ni Houlihan and Deirdre among others. The importance of the spirit world to his life and work is evident in his critical essays and occultwritings, and the anthology also contains political speeches, autobiographical writings, and a selection of his letters.This one-volume collection of poems and prose offers a unique perspective on the connectedness of Yeats's literary output, showing how his aesthetic, spiritual, and political development was reflected in everything he wrote.
Best-Loved Yeats
Author: W. B. YeatsPublisher: The O'Brien Press
ISBN: 1847174337
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 91
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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.
Selected Poems and Three Plays of William Butler Yeats
Author: William Butler YeatsPublisher: Scribner Paper Fiction
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A revised and expanded edition of the classic volume of Yeats' work, including the play The Death of Cuchulain.
Early Poems
Author: William Butler YeatsPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486159450
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
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.
The Tower
Author: William Butler YeatsPublisher: Renard Press Ltd
ISBN: 1804470643
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
First published in 1928, The Tower was Yeats’s first collection published after receiving the Nobel Prize in 1923, and it is perhaps the major work that most cemented his reputation as one of the foremost literary figures of the twentieth century. The titular poem, ‘The Tower’, refers to Thoor Ballylee Castle, a Norman tower that Yeats purchased in 1917, and which formed the basis of the original cover design – evoked in the cover of this edition. The collection also includes some of his most inventive and profound work, and develops deep themes regarding life, love and myth. With explanatory notes, this edition seeks to bring the collection to a greater readership and to offer a more profound understanding of the great poet’s work.
The Variorum Edition of the Plays of W.B. Yeats
Author: William Butler YeatsPublisher:
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Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 1376
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Collected Works in Verse and Prose
Author: William Butler YeatsPublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 298
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The Shadowy Waters
Author: W. B. YeatsPublisher: Digireads.com Publishing
ISBN: 9781420941715
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was an instrumental figure in the "Irish Literary Revival" of the 20th Century that redefined Irish writing. His father's love of reading aloud exposed Yeats early on to William Shakespeare, the Romantic poets and the pre-Raphaelites, and developed an interest in Irish myths and folklore. He was a complex man, who struggled between beliefs in the strange and supernatural, and scorn for modern science. He was intrigued by the idea of mysticism, yet had little regard for Christianity. He spent much of his life seeking out a philosophical system to resolve the conflict he felt between his nature and life. "The Shadowy Waters" was a play that Yeats began writing as a boy, possibly as early as 1885, and spent years reshaping and revising until its final acting version in 1906, which was performed at the Abbey Theatre.