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William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and prose writer. One of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century, Yeats received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. "The Land of Heart's Desire" (1894) remains...
The first edition of W. B. Yeats's The Tower appeared in bookstores in London on Valentine's Day, 1928. His English publisher printed just 2,000 copies of this slender volume of twenty-one poems, priced at six shillings. The book was immediately...
Gathered by the renowned Irish poet, playwright, and essayist William Butler Yeats, the sixty-five tales and poems in this delightful collection uniquely capture the rich heritage of the Celtic imagination. Filled with legends of village ghosts, fairies,...
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...
Few have lived their ideas so passionately and nobly as W.B. Yeats in his love affairs, politics and poetry. From his youth in the 1880s, a fertile dreamer rediscovering and remaking the Irish tradition, he grew into a great and innovative poet of the...
Autobiographies consists of six autobiographical works that William Butler Yeats published together in the mid-1930s to form a single, extraordinary memoir of the first fifty-eight years of his life, from his earliest memories of childhood to winning the...
THE CLASSIC ONE-VOLUME INTRODUCTION TO IRELANDâS RICH FOLKLORE: WILLIAM BUTLER YEATSâS MAGICAL SELECTION OF TRADITIONAL IRISH FAIRY AND FOLK TALES.Fairy and Folk Tales of Ireland combines two books of Irish folklore...
The 18 plays are: The Shadowy Waters; Cathleen in Houlihan; The Hour Glass; On Baileâs Strabd; The Green Helmet; Deirdre; At the Hawkâs Well; The Dreaming of the Bones; The Cat and the Moon; The Only Jealousy of Emer;...
Breathtaking in range, The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats includes all of the poems authorized by Yeats for inclusion and encompasses the entire arc of his career: reworkings of ancient Irish myths and legends, meditations on youth and old age, whimsical...