WB Yeats: Selected Poems

by Yeats, William Butler

• ISBN13: 9781912945115
• ISBN10: 1912945118
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2019-06-28
• Publisher: Mount Orleans Press

Summary

A collection of classic poems that provide an accessible introduction to the poetry of WB Yeats. Printed in a high quality, cloth edition each volume in the Crane Classics makes an attractive gift.

Author Biography

William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.

Table of Contents

Selected and introduced by Louise Guinness
 
from Crossways (1889)
Down by the Salley Gardens
 
from The Rose (1893)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
When You are Old
The Countess Cathleen in Paradise
To Some I have Talked with by the Fire
To Ireland in the Coming Times
 
from The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)
The Song of Wandering Aengus
The Lover Mourns for the Loss of Love
He Thinks of Those who have Spoken Evil of his Beloved
He wishes his Beloved were Dead
He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
 
from In The Seven Woods (1904)
The Folly of Being Comforted
Never Give All the Heart
Adam’s Curse
O Do Not Love too Long
 
from The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)
A Woman Homer Sung
No Second Troy
At Galway Races
 
from Responsibilities (1914)
September 1913
To a Child Dancing in the Wind
Two Years Later
A Memory of Youth
 
from The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
The Wild Swans at Coole
In Memory of Major Robert Gregory
An Irish Airman Foresees his Death
Lines Written in Dejection
Memory 31
The Cat and The Moon 32
 
from Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921)
Easter 1916
Sixteen Dead Men
On a Political Prisoner
A Prayer for My Daughter
To Be Carved on A Stone at Thoor Ballylee
 
from The Tower (1928)
Sailing to Byzantium
The Tower
A Prayer for My Son 47
Leda and The Swan 48
 
from The Winding Stair & Other Poems (1933)
In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth
and Con Markiewicz
Coole Park, 1929
For Anne Gregory
Swift’s Epitaph
Byzantium
The Mother of God
Quarrel in Old Age
After Long Silence
A Last Confession
 
from A Full Moon in March (1935)
Parnell’s Funeral
A Prayer for Old Age
 
from Last Poems (1936-1939)
The Gyres
An Acre of Grass
Lapis Lazuli
Under Ben Bulben