"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 Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923, and he is widely regarded as the finest English-language poet of the twentieth century. This volume contains a rich selection of poems from Yeat's mature work, including all the poems from The Wild S... Read More
"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 Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923, and he is widely regarded as the finest English-language poet of the twentieth century. This volume contains a rich selection of poems from Yeat's mature work, including all the poems from The Wild S... Read More
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"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 Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923, and he is widely regarded as the finest English-language poet of the twentieth century. This volume contains a rich selection of poems from Yeat's mature work, including all the poems from The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) and Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921). These memorable verses, embodying subtlety and objectivity in language of stark beauty and simplicity, offer a cross-section of Yeat's multifaceted poetic production. In addition to the famous title poem, the works collected here include the oft-quoted "The Second Coming" as well as "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death," "The Wild Swans at Coole," "In Memory of Major Robert Gregory," "Under the Round Tower," "Michael Robartes and the Dancer," "The Rose Tree," "A Prayer for My Daughter," "A Meditation in Time of War," and many more.
Dover Original.
Details
Price: $5.00
Pages: 80
Publisher: Dover Publications
Imprint: Dover Publications
Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry
Publication Date: 11th July 1997
Trim Size: 5 x 8 in
ISBN: 9780486297712
Format: Paperback
Age: 14-99
BISACs: POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Table of Contents
"From The Wild Swans at Coole, 1919" The Wild Swans at Coole In Memory of Major Robert Gregory An Irish Airman Foresees His Death Men Improve with the Years The Collar-Bone of a Hare Under the Round Tower Solomon to Sheba The Living Beauty A Song To a Young Beauty To a Young Girl The Scholars Tom O'Roughley Shepherd and Goatherd Lines Written in Dejection The Dawn On Woman The Fisherman The Hawk Memory Her Praise The People His Phoenix A Thought from Propertius Broken Dreams A Deep-Sworn Vow Presences The Balloon of the Mind To a Squirrel at Kyle-Na-Gno On Being Asked for a War Poem In Memory of Alfred Pollexfen Upon a Dying Lady Ego Dominus Tuus A Prayer on Going into My House The Phases of the Moon The Cat and the Moon The Saint and the Hunchback Two Songs of a Fool Another Song of a Fool The Double Vision of Michael Robartes "From Michael Robartes and the Dancer, 1921" Michael Robartes and the Dancer Solomon and the Witch An Image from a Past Life Under Saturn Easter 1916 Sixteen Dead Men The Rose Tree On a Political Prisoner The Leaders of the Crowd Towards Break of Day Demon and Beast The Second Coming A Prayer for My Daughter A Meditation in Time of War To Be Carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee Alphabetical List of Titles and First Lines
"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 Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923, and he is widely regarded as the finest English-language poet of the twentieth century. This volume contains a rich selection of poems from Yeat's mature work, including all the poems from The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) and Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921). These memorable verses, embodying subtlety and objectivity in language of stark beauty and simplicity, offer a cross-section of Yeat's multifaceted poetic production. In addition to the famous title poem, the works collected here include the oft-quoted "The Second Coming" as well as "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death," "The Wild Swans at Coole," "In Memory of Major Robert Gregory," "Under the Round Tower," "Michael Robartes and the Dancer," "The Rose Tree," "A Prayer for My Daughter," "A Meditation in Time of War," and many more.
Dover Original.
Price: $5.00
Pages: 80
Publisher: Dover Publications
Imprint: Dover Publications
Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry
Publication Date: 11th July 1997
Trim Size: 5 x 8 in
ISBN: 9780486297712
Format: Paperback
Age: 14-99
BISACs: POETRY / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
"From The Wild Swans at Coole, 1919" The Wild Swans at Coole In Memory of Major Robert Gregory An Irish Airman Foresees His Death Men Improve with the Years The Collar-Bone of a Hare Under the Round Tower Solomon to Sheba The Living Beauty A Song To a Young Beauty To a Young Girl The Scholars Tom O'Roughley Shepherd and Goatherd Lines Written in Dejection The Dawn On Woman The Fisherman The Hawk Memory Her Praise The People His Phoenix A Thought from Propertius Broken Dreams A Deep-Sworn Vow Presences The Balloon of the Mind To a Squirrel at Kyle-Na-Gno On Being Asked for a War Poem In Memory of Alfred Pollexfen Upon a Dying Lady Ego Dominus Tuus A Prayer on Going into My House The Phases of the Moon The Cat and the Moon The Saint and the Hunchback Two Songs of a Fool Another Song of a Fool The Double Vision of Michael Robartes "From Michael Robartes and the Dancer, 1921" Michael Robartes and the Dancer Solomon and the Witch An Image from a Past Life Under Saturn Easter 1916 Sixteen Dead Men The Rose Tree On a Political Prisoner The Leaders of the Crowd Towards Break of Day Demon and Beast The Second Coming A Prayer for My Daughter A Meditation in Time of War To Be Carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee Alphabetical List of Titles and First Lines
