Best-Loved Yeats

Author: W. B. Yeats
Publisher: The O'Brien Press
ISBN: 1847174337
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 91

Book Description
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.

Arise And Go

Author: Kevin Connolly
Publisher: The O'Brien Press Ltd
ISBN: 1788491130
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 233

Book Description
The idea of place runs like a river through the life and works of the poet and playwright W.B. Yeats. This book focuses on his time in Dublin, London, Sligo and elsewhere in the west of Ireland, embracing the homes, landscapes and people that impacted his life and stimulated his vast body of work. Meet the poet's father, the struggling artist John Butler Yeats; his mother Susan, the well-to-do Sligo girl who had no choice but to follow her husband's path; his five siblings: Lily and Lolly, guiding lights in the Irish Arts and Crafts movement; Jack, the renowned painter; and Bobbie and Jane Grace, who died in infancy. Meet William Morris, John O'Leary, Katharine Tynan, George Moore, Oscar Wilde, Lady Gregory, Douglas Hyde, George Hyde-Lees, and, of course, Maud Gonne, as well as countless others who helped weave the cloth of Yeats's poetic gift.

When You Are Old

Author: William Butler Yeats
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 014310764X
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 370

Book Description
Beautiful early writings by one of the 20th century’s greatest poets on the 150th anniversary of his birth A Penguin Classic The poems, prose, and drama gathered in When You Are Old present a fresh portrait of the Nobel Prize–winning writer as a younger man: the 1890s aesthete who dressed as a dandy, collected Irish folklore, dabbled in magic, and wrote heartrending poems for his beloved, the beautiful, elusive Irish revolutionary Maud Gonne. Included here are such celebrated, lyrical poems as “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” and “He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven,” as well as Yeats’s imaginative retellings of Irish fairytales—including his first major poem, “The Wanderings of Oisin,” based on a Celtic fable—and his critical writings, which offer a fascinating window onto his artistic theories. Through these enchanting works, readers will encounter Yeats as the mystical, lovelorn bard and Irish nationalist popular during his own lifetime. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Collected Plays

Author: William Butler Yeats
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 446

Book Description

W.B. Yeats: The arch-poet, 1915-1939

Author: Robert Fitzroy Foster
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 9780198184652
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 798

Book Description
Recounts the life of the Irish poet and nationalist, describes his relationships with his contemporaries, and traces his interest in the occult.

Making the Void Fruitful

Author: Patrick J. Keane
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781800643222
Category : Occultism in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
Shedding fresh light on the life and work of William Butler Yeats--widely acclaimed as the major English-language poet of the twentieth century--this new study by leading scholar Patrick J. Keane questions established understandings of the Irish poet's long fascination with the occult: a fixation that repelled literary contemporaries T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden, but which enhanced Yeats's vision of life and death.

The Works of W. B. Yeats

Author: William Butler Yeats
Publisher: NTC/Contemporary Publishing Company
ISBN: 9781853264030
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

Byzantium

Author: William Butler Yeats
Publisher: Black Swan Books, Limited
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 104

Book Description

The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats

Author: William Butler Yeats
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781015721524
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

W.B. Yeats

Author: Norman A. Jeffares
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136212310
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 504

Book Description
This set comprises of 40 volumes covering nineteenth and twentieth century European and American authors. These volumes will be available as a complete set, mini boxed sets (by theme) or as individual volumes. This second set compliments the first 68 volume set of Critical Heritage published by Routledge in October 1995.