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  • Selected Poems And Four Plays of William Butler Yeats

    • ASIN: 0684826461
    • ISBN: 0684826461
    • Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

  • The Yeats Reader: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Prose

    • ASIN: 0743227980
    • ISBN: 0743227980
    • Brand: Scribner
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

    Throughout his long life, William Butler Yeats -- Irish writer and premier lyric poet in English in this century -- produced important works in every literary genre, works of astonishing range, energy, erudition, beauty, and skill. His early poetry is memorable and moving. His poems and plays of middle age address the human condition with language ... [Read More]

  • Yeats's Poetry, Drama, and Prose (Norton Critical Editions)

    • ASIN: 0393974979
    • ISBN: 0393974979
    • Brand: Yeats, W. B./ Pethica, James (EDT)/ Pethica, James
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    This brand new collection, impeccably edited by James Pethica, presents a comprehensive selection of Yeats's major contributions in poetry, drama, prose fiction, autobiography, and criticism. "Criticism" includes twenty-four interpretive essays by T. S. Eliot, Daniel Albright, Douglas Archibald, Harold Bloom, George Bornstein, Elizabeth Cullingford... [Read More]

  • The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore (Celtic, Irish)

    • UPC: 800759436576
    • ASIN: 0486436578
    • ISBN: 0486436578
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

    Best known for his poetry, William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) was also a dedicated exponent of Irish folklore. Yeats took a particular interest in the tales' mythic and magical roots. The Celtic Twilight ventures into the eerie and puckish world of fairies, ghosts, and spirits. "This handful of dreams," as the author referred to it, first appeared ... [Read More]

  • Collected Poems (Macmillan Collector's Library Book 13)

    • ASIN: B019EBZBLS
    • Manufacturer: Macmillan Collector's Library

  • Best-Loved Yeats: William Butler Yeats

    • ASIN: 1847171486
    • ISBN: 1847171486
    • Brand: O'Brien Press Ltd
    • Manufacturer: The O'Brien Press

    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 ... [Read More]

  • A Poet to His Beloved: The Early Love Poems of William Butler Yeats

    • ASIN: 0312619863
    • ISBN: 9780312619862
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press

    As a young man, William Butler Yeats was deeply affected by the idea of romantic love, or, as he called it, "the old high way of love." Characteristically, much of his early poetry that which was written prior to 1910, is poetry that belongs to courtship.When Yeats was twenty-three years old, he met and fell in love with the beautiful Irish nationa... [Read More]

  • Yeats: The Man and the Masks

    • ASIN: 0393008592
    • ISBN: 0393008592
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    The definitive biography of William Butler Yeats The most influential poet of his age, Yeats eluded the grasp of many who sought to explain him. In this classic critical examination of the poet, Richard Ellmann strips away the masks of his subject: occultist, senator of the Irish Free State, libidinous old man, and Nobel Prize winner.... [Read More]

  • Poetry for Young People: William Butler Yeats

    • UPC: 049725066151
    • ASIN: 0806966157
    • ISBN: 0806966157
    • Brand: Sterling Publishing
    • Manufacturer: Sterling

    He was the finest modern poet in the English language--plus a playwright, theatre manager, politician, and passionate believer in supernatural. William Butler Yeats' writing captures all the magic and mystery of his native Ireland, and here are some 26 of his finest, most mesmerizing verses. In "The Stolen Child," fairies come in the night to entic... [Read More]

  • Early Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)

    • UPC: 800759278084
    • ASIN: 0486278085
    • ISBN: 0486278085
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

    One of the greatest poets of any century, the Nobel laureate William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) drew upon Irish folklore and myth as inspiration for much of his early poetry. Mythic themes as well as many other topics are masterfully explored in this rich selection of 134 lyrics chiefly selected from six volumes of verse published between 1889 and ... [Read More]

  • The Very Best of William Butler Yeats

    • ASIN: B00383Y4L2
    • Manufacturer: Saland Publishing

    Here are 24 of Yeats' finest poems, read by Siobhan McKenna, V.C. Clinton-Baddeley, Cyril Cusack, and Michael MacLiammoir.

  • The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiographies

    • ASIN: 0684853388
    • ISBN: 0684853388
    • Brand: Touchstone
    • Manufacturer: Touchstone

    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 Nobel Prize for Literature. This volume provides a vivid series of personal accounts of a wide ... [Read More]

  • A Yeats Dictionary: Persons and Places in the Poetry of William Butler Yeats (Irish Studies)

    • ASIN: 081562770X
    • ISBN: 081562770X
    • Brand: Brand: Syracuse Univ Pr (Sd)
    • Manufacturer: Syracuse University Press

    This is the first dictionary to identify, chart, and explain in context the many proper names and place names that so famously enrich the poetry of William Butler Yeats and, just as famously, anchor that poetry to Ireland. In compiling this work, Lester I. Conner has relied upon Yeats's own prose, the principal Yeats criticism, and the writings of ... [Read More]

  • "Easter 1916" and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)

    • UPC: 800759297719
    • ASIN: 0486297713
    • ISBN: 9780486297712
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

    "A terrible beauty is born," observed the greatest modern Irish poet after his country's 1916 Easter Rebellion against the British. This streak of proud nationalism, interwoven with elements of Celtic lore and mysticism, and infused with a hard-earned wisdom, makes Yeats's works resonate to this day. His career spanned five decades, earning him the... [Read More]

  • The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats by William Butler Yeats (1996-09-09)

    • ASIN: B017WQM7GO
    • Manufacturer: Scribner; 2nd Revised edition (1996-09-09)

  • Seven Ages: Anthology of Poetry with Music / Various

    • ASIN: 9626341890
    • ISBN: 9626341890
    • Brand: Brand: Naxos Audiobooks
    • Manufacturer: Naxos Audio Books

    An arresting, deeply moving collection of the best of British poetry read by a star-studded cast--based on Lord Owen's anthology Seven Ages: Poetry for a Lifetime--features over 40 leading actors, including Dame Judi Dench, Sir Ian McKellen, Michael Caine, Ralph Fiennes, John Cleese, Pete Postlethwaite and others.

  • The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume XIII: A Vision: The Original 1925 Version

    • ASIN: 0684807335
    • ISBN: 0684807335
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

    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... [Read More]

  • 100 Favorite English and Irish Poems (Dover Thrift Editions)

    • UPC: 800759444298
    • ASIN: 0486444295
    • ISBN: 0486444295
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

    This compact anthology contains many of the best works of 59 poets writing in English—from the complex rhyme schemes of Elizabethan poet Edmund Spenser and lovely sonnets of the preeminent English poet and playwright William Shakespeare to William Blake's visionary works and John Keats' profound insights into the nature of beauty, art, and mortal... [Read More]

  • 50 Best Loved Christmas Stories and Poems for All Ages (Cambridge World Classics Edition) (Christmas Books Classic Literature Book 1)

    • ASIN: B004ELAHMM
    • Manufacturer: Cambridge World Classics

    This wonderful collection brings together, for the very first time, fifty of the best loved Christmas stories and poems in a single, beautifully illustrated volume. Opening with O. Henry’s classic story of transcendent love, The Gift of the Magi, and closing with Robert Frost’s celebratory poem, Christmas Trees, this anthology passes through th... [Read More]

  • Irish Verse: An Anthology (Dover Thrift Editions)

    • UPC: 800759419142
    • ASIN: 0486419142
    • ISBN: 0486419142
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

    Celebrated for their unique poetic sensibility and wondrous way with words, the Irish have produced a rich heritage of great poetry. This volume attests to the Irish love of language, spanning fourteen centuries of literary history and featuring works by more than 60 of the Emerald Isle's most distinguished poets.This comprehensive selection of wel... [Read More]

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