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Dover Thrift Editions: EARLY POEMS of William Butler Yeats

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William Butler Yeats

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PRK B 3425

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ISBN: 9780486278087;

ISBN-10: 0486278085;

Series: Dover Thrift Editions;

For Ages: Above 14 years;

Format: Paperback;

Language: English;

Number Of Pages: 128;

Published: 23rd December 1993;

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.

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One of the greatest poets of the century, Yeats drew upon Irish folklore and myth as inspiration for much of his early poetry. Mythic themes and others are masterfully explored in this rich selection of 134 poems published between 1889 and 1914.

Included are such favourites as

"Lake Isle of Innisfree,"

"When You Are Old,"

"Down by the Salley Gardens,"

"The Stolen Child,"

"Fergus and the Druid,"

"To the Rose upon the Rood of Time,"

"The Song of Wandering Aengus,"

"The Fascination of What's Difficult" and many more.

Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative: "The Song of Wandering Aengus."

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish Senator for two terms. Yeats was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and, along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn, and others, founded the Abbey Theatre, where he served as its chief during its early years. In 1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Irishman so honoured for what the Nobel Committee described as "inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation."

Yeats is generally considered one of the few writers who completed their greatest works after being awarded the Nobel Prize; such works include The Tower (1928) and The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1929). William Butler Yeats was born in Sandymount, Ireland and educated there and in London; he spent his childhood holidays in County Sligo. He studied poetry in his youth and from an early age was fascinated by both Irish legends and the occult. Those topics feature in the first phase of his work, which lasted roughly until the turn of the 20th century. His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889, and its slow-paced and lyrical poems display Yeats's debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the poets of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. From 1900, Yeats's poetry grew more physical and realistic. He largely renounced the transcendental beliefs of his youth, though he remained preoccupied with physical and spiritual masks, as well as with cyclical theories of life.

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SKU Code	PRK B 3425
Weight in Kg	0.100000
Dispatch Period in Days	3
Brand	Bookwomb
ISBN No.	9780486278087
Author Name	William Butler Yeats
Publisher Name	DOVER PUBLICATION