William Yeats

This selection of W.B. Yeats' poetry includes the significant and interesting variants of the major poems, as well as a brief explanatory paragraph on the textual and contextual import of each poem.

Selected Poems

Robert Welch

This collection brings together all of W. B. Yeats�s published prose writings on Irish folklore, legend and myth, with pieces on subjects including ghosts, kidnappers, fairies, ancient tribes, precious stones and Gaelic love songs. Through his researches on Irish folklore, Yeats attempted to create a movement in literature that was enriched by and rooted in a vital native tradition. In this volume Yeats�s essays, introductions and sketches are presented chronologically, giving a clear picture of how his analysis developed, increasing in its depth and complexity in his quest to create an Ireland of the imagination.

Writings on Irish Folklore, Legend and Myth

This work encompasses the entire collection of poetry written by W.B. Yeats. William Butler Yeats is widely considered to be one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. As fellow poet W. H. Auden noted in a 1948 Kenyon Review essay entitled "Yeats as an Example," Yeats accepted the modern necessity of having to make a lonely and deliberate "choice of the principles and presuppositions in terms of which [made] sense of his experience." Auden assigned Yeats the high praise of having written "some of the most beautiful poetry" of modern times.

The Poetical Works of William B. Yeats

Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry "Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting For fear of little men; Wee folk, good folk, Trooping all together; Green jacket, red cap, And white owl's feather!Down along the rocky shore Some make their home, They live on crispy pancakes Of yellow tide-foam; Some in the reeds Of the black mountain lake, With frogs for their watch-dogs All night awake.High on the hill-top The old King sits; He is now so old and gray He's nigh lost his wits. With a bridge of white mist Columbkill he crosses, On his stately journeys From Slieveleague to Rosses; Or going up with music On cold starry nights, To sup with the Queen Of the gay Northern Lights." Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry has a beautiful glossy cover and a blank page for the dedication.

Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

A selection of 18 of Yeats's plays, arranged chronologically, including The Shadowy Waters , The Hour Glass , The Cat and the Moon , Deirdre , The Dreaming of the Bones , and The Death of Cuchulain .

William Yeats

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