Best-Loved Yeats

Best-Loved Yeats
Title Best-Loved Yeats PDF eBook
Author W. B. Yeats
Publisher The O'Brien Press
Pages 91
Release 2013-01-08
Genre Poetry
ISBN 1847174337

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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

Arise And Go
Title Arise And Go PDF eBook
Author Kevin Connolly
Publisher The O'Brien Press Ltd
Pages 233
Release 2019-04-08
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1788491130

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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

When You Are Old
Title When You Are Old PDF eBook
Author William Butler Yeats
Publisher Penguin
Pages 370
Release 2015-06-09
Genre Poetry
ISBN 014310764X

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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

Collected Plays
Title Collected Plays PDF eBook
Author William Butler Yeats
Publisher
Pages 446
Release 1968
Genre
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The Major Works

The Major Works
Title The Major Works PDF eBook
Author William Butler Yeats
Publisher
Pages 612
Release 2001
Genre Poetry
ISBN 9780192842831

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This authoritative edition was first published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Yeats's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by plays, critical writings, and letters - to give theessence of his work and thinking.W. B. Yeats was born in 1865, only 38 years after the death of William Blake, and died in 1939, the contemporary of Ezra Pound and James Joyce. His career crossed two centuries, and this volume represents the full range of his achievement, from the Romantic early poems of Crossways and thesymbolist masterpiece The Wind Among the Reeds to his last poems. Myth and folk-tale influence both his poems and his plays, represented here by Cathleen ni Houlihan and Deirdre among others. The importance of the spirit world to his life and work is evident in his critical essays and occultwritings, and the anthology also contains political speeches, autobiographical writings, and a selection of his letters.This one-volume collection of poems and prose offers a unique perspective on the connectedness of Yeats's literary output, showing how his aesthetic, spiritual, and political development was reflected in everything he wrote.

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

W.B. Yeats: The arch-poet, 1915-1939
Title W.B. Yeats: The arch-poet, 1915-1939 PDF eBook
Author Robert Fitzroy Foster
Publisher Oxford University Press on Demand
Pages 798
Release 2003
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780198184652

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

The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume XIII: A Vision

The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume XIII: A Vision
Title The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume XIII: A Vision PDF eBook
Author William Butler Yeats
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 450
Release 2008-04
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0684807335

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The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume XIII: A Vision is part of a fourteen-volume series under the general editorship of eminent Yeats scholar George Bornstein and formerly the late Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper. One of the strangest works of literary modernism, A Vision is Yeats's greatest occult work. Edited by Yeats scholars Catherine E. Paul and Margaret Mills Harper, the volume presents the "system" of philosophy, psychology, history, and the life of the soul that Yeats and his wife George (née Hyde Lees) received and created by means of mediumistic experiments from 1917 through the early 1920s. Yeats obsessively revised the book, and the revised 1937 version is much more widely available than its predecessor. The original 1925 version of A Vision, poetic, unpolished, masked in fiction, and close to the excitement of the automatic writing that the Yeatses believed to be its supernatural origin, is presented here in a scholarly edition for the first time. The text, minimally corrected to retain the sense of the original, is extensively annotated, with particular attention paid to the relationship between the published book and its complex genetic materials. Indispensable to an understanding of the poet's late work and entrancing on its own merit, A Vision aims to be, all at once, a work of theoretical history, an esoteric philosophy, an aesthetic symbology, a psychological schema, and a sacred book. It is as difficult as it is essential reading for any student of Yeats.