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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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 Tower

The Tower
Title The Tower PDF eBook
Author William Butler Yeats
Publisher Renard Press Ltd
Pages 66
Release 1928
Genre Poetry
ISBN 1804470643

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First published in 1928, The Tower was Yeats’s first collection published after receiving the Nobel Prize in 1923, and it is perhaps the major work that most cemented his reputation as one of the foremost literary figures of the twentieth century. The titular poem, ‘The Tower’, refers to Thoor Ballylee Castle, a Norman tower that Yeats purchased in 1917, and which formed the basis of the original cover design – evoked in the cover of this edition. The collection also includes some of his most inventive and profound work, and develops deep themes regarding life, love and myth. With explanatory notes, this edition seeks to bring the collection to a greater readership and to offer a more profound understanding of the great poet’s work.

Making the Void Fruitful

Making the Void Fruitful
Title Making the Void Fruitful PDF eBook
Author Patrick J. Keane
Publisher
Pages 272
Release 2021
Genre Occultism in literature
ISBN 9781800643222

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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.