The Poetical Works of William B. Yeats

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.