The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats - Softcover

Finneran, Richard J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0020556500 ISBN 13: 9780020556503

Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD, 1989

Synopsis

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 interested in the literature of the late nineteenth century and the twentieth century, Yeats's work is essential.

This volume gathers the full range of his published poetry, from the hauntingly beautiful early lyrics (by which he is still fondly remembered) to the magnificent later poems which put beyond question his status as major poet of modern times. Paradoxical, proud and passionate, Yeats speaks today as eloquently as ever.

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Review:

"My favourite poet is Yeats, who in my book is the greatest since Shakespeare" (Michael Longley)

"His verse is inspired;his poetic persona is magnificent... He created a poetry both lyrical and demotic, melodic and rhetorical" (Peter Ackroyd The Times)

Book Description:

The collected works of Ireland's greatest lyric poet

About this edition

• Publisher: Prentice Hall & IBD
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0020556500
• ISBN 13: 9780020556503
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 576