The Poems (Collected Works of W. B. Yeats) - Hardcover

Yeats, W. B.; Finneran, Richard J.

 
9780684839356: The Poems (Collected Works of W. B. Yeats)

Synopsis

This is the first of a fourteen-volume edition of Yeats’s work issued under the general editorship of Richard Finneran and George Mills Harper. A necessary read for Yeats devotees, Seamus Heaney writes, “All readers of Yeats will need this book; when they open it they will feel a surprise like that experienced by St. Brendan the Navigator and his crew when they disembarked upon an island that turned out to be the back of a dormant sea monster.”

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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

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