William Butler Yeats

The collected poems of W.B. Yeats

Irish Fairy and Folk Tales

Richard J. Finneran

Recreates the classic collection of twenty-one poems, first published in 1928, including such acclaimed works as "Leda and the Swan," "Sailing to Byzantium," and "Among School Children."

A Facsimile Edition

The Tower

A Vision

Representing the letter “Y” in a series of 26 collectible editions, a compilation of the best-known works by the Nobel Prize-winning poet includes his love poems written for Maude Gonne as well as his Irish myths and fairy tales.

Early Poems and Fairy Tales

When You Are Old

Treasury of Irish Myth, Legend & Folklore

The Wind Among the Reeds

Sailing to Byzantium

Claire Booss

Introduce yourself to the noble heroes and magical creatures of Irish mythology. Includes the two definitive works on the subject by the giants of the Irish Renaissance. W.B. Yeates' Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry and Lady Gregory's Cuchulain of Muirthemne.

A Treasury of Irish Myth, Legend, and Folklore

Collected stories depict the antics of the fairies, ghosts, evil spirits, saints, and other unique characters found in the folklore of Ireland

Fairy Folk Tales of Ireland

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.

The Major Works

Gathers poems from each period in Yeats' career, and plays, including "The Death of Cuchulain" and "Purgatory"

Selected Poems And Four Plays

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.

Authoritative Texts, Contexts, Criticism

Yeats's Poetry, Drama, and Prose

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.

Best-Loved Yeats

Catherine E. Paul

Margaret Mills Harper

Collects all of the Nobel laureate's published work and includes additional notes and criticisms.

The Original 1925 Version

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

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 range of figures, and it describes Yeats's work as poet and playwright, as a founder of Dublin's famed Abbey Theatre, his involvement with Irish nationalism, and his fascination with occultism and visions. This book is most compelling as Yeats's own account of the growth of his poetic imagination. Yeats thought that a poet leads a life of allegory, and that his works are comments upon it. Autobiographies enacts his ruling belief in the connections and coherence between the life that he led and the works that he wrote. It is a vision of personal history as art, and so it is the one truly essential companion to his poems and plays. Edited by William H. O'Donnell and Douglas N. Archibald, this volume is available for the first time with invaluable explanatory notes and includes previously unpublished passages from candidly explicit first drafts.

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

Poems deal with unrequited love, sorrow, loss, nature, dreams, women, aging, beauty, forgiveness, and poetry

The Early Love Poems of William Butler Yeats

A Poet to His Beloved

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I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

The lyric poetry of Yeats calls out to our own hearts just as the peace and calm of Innisfree beckoned him; he writes of youth and love, and of Ireland with its beauty and its noble past. Here, perfectly expressed, are the innermost thoughts, dreams and fears of the greatest Irish poet of all time.

Yeats

Autobiographies is made up of six autobiographical works that Yeats published in the mid 1930s. Together, they provide a fascinating insight into the first 58 years of his life. The work provides memories of his early childhood, through to his experience of winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. The volume contains explanatory notes and previously unpublished passages from candidly explicit first drafts.

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