Born and educated in Dublin, Ireland, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) discovered early in his literary career a fascination with Irish folklore and the occult. Later awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923, Yeats produced a vast collection of stories, songs, and poetry of Ireland's historica[...]
"The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume IX: Early Articles and Reviews" is part of a fourteen-volume series under the general editorship of eminent Yeats scholars Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper. This first complete edition includes virtually all of the Nobel laureate's published wor[...]
"The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats" includes all of the poems authorized by Yeats for inclusion in his standard canon. Breathtaking in range, it encompasses the entire arc of his career, from luminous reworkings of ancient Irish myths and legends to passionate meditations on the demands and rewards[...]
A unique selection of Yeats's major poems, plays, criticism and other prose writings, showing the connectedness of his literary output. Formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series.[...]
Since its first appearance in 1962, M. L. Rosenthal's classic selection of Yeats's poems and plays has attracted hundreds of thousands of readers. This newly revised edition includes 211 poems and 4 plays. It adds "The Words Upon the Window-Pane, " one of Yeats's most startling dramatic works in its[...]
"An illuminating collection of inspirational poems by a Nobel Laureate"
While traveling through one of the poorest regions in India, W. B. Yeats was amazed to discover the women in the tea fields singing the songs and poems of Rabindranath Tagore. This striking scene led the great Irish poet to[...]
A facsimile edition of the classic collection of twenty-one poems, first published in 1928, includes such acclaimed works as "Leda and the Swan," "Sailing to Byzantium," and "Among School Children." Reprint. 12,500 first printing.[...]
"A well-researched biographical introduction...26 works, many of which reflect the mystery and beauty of Yeats' native Ireland. A dramatic painting of a rocky Sligo coast accompanies 'The Meditation of the Old Fisherman.'"--"Publishers Weekly. "Beautiful paintings, many full page, show landscapes, p[...]
W. B. Yeats's "The Winding Stair and Other Poems "was published in 1933 when Yeats was sixty-eight, ten years after he won the Nobel Prize and six years before his death in 1939. Yeats famously invoked in "Adam's Curse" the time he spent "stitching and unstitching" the lines of his work, but he also[...]
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and prose writer. One of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century, Yeats received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. "The Land of Heart's Desire" (1894) remains one of his most famous dramas. This edition also includes[...]
W. B. Yeats ? kärlekens, Irlands och jagets sångare
Irländaren WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865?1939) är en av förra seklets mest betydande poeter. Han mottog Nobelpriset i litteratur 1923, men det är egentligen inte förrän på senare år som ett större urval av hans poesi tolkats till[...]
Tydligare och tydligare framstår W B Yeats som den store irländske poeten under 1900-talet. Han är den som osökt förmådde röra sig från viston, folkliga och mytologiska motiv till upprörd kärlekspoesi, intensiv självanalys och slutligen en modernistisk form med ett djupt personligt tonfal[...]