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Throughout his long life, William Butler Yeats -- Irish writer and premier lyric poet in English in this century -- produced important works in every literary genre, works of astonishing range, energy, erudition, beauty, and skill. His early poetry is memorable and moving. His poems and plays of middle age address the human condition with language that has entered our vocabulary for cataclysmic personal and world events. The writings of his final years offer wisdom, courage, humor, and sheer technical virtuosity. T. S. Eliot pronounced Yeats "the greatest poet of our time -- certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language" and "one of the few whose history is the history of their own time, who are a part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them."The Yeats Readeris the most comprehensive single volume to display the full range of Yeats's talents. It presents more than one hundred and fifty of his best-known poems -- more than any other compendium -- plus eight plays, a sampling of his prose tales, and excerpts from his published autobiographical and critical writings. In addition, an appendix offers six early texts of poems that Yeats later revised. Also included are selections from the memoirs left unpublished at his death and complete introductions written for a projected collection that never came to fruition. These are supplemented by unobtrusive annotation and a chronology of the life.Yeats was a protean writer and thinker, and few writers so thoroughly reward a reader's efforts to essay the whole of their canon. This volume is an excellent place to begin that enterprise, to renew an old acquaintance with one of world literature's great voices, or to continue a lifelong interest in the phenomenon of literary genius.

Preface
Chronology
Poems
From Crossways (1889)
The Song of the Happy Shepherd
The Sad Shepherd
The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes
The Indian to his Love
The Falling of the Leaves
Ephemera
The Stolen Child
To an Isle in the Water
Down by the Salley Gardens
The Meditation of the Old Fisherman
From The Rose (1893)
To the Rose upon the Rood of Time
Fergus and the Druid
The Rose of the World
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The Pity of Love
The Sorrow of Love
When You are Old
The White Birds
Who goes with Fergus?
The Man who dreamed of Faeryland
The Dedication to a Book of Stories selected from the Irish Novelists
The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner
The Two Trees
To Ireland in the Coming Times
From The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)
The Hosting of the Sidhe
The Lover tells of the Rose in his Heart
The Fish
The Song of Wandering Aengus
The Lover mourns for the Loss of Love
He reproves the Curlew
He remembers forgotten Beauty
A Poet to his Beloved
He gives his Beloved certain Rhymes
To his Heart, bidding it have no Fear
The Cap and Bells
He hears the Cry of the Sedge
He thinks of Those who have spoken Evil of his Beloved
The Lover pleads with his Friend for Old Friends
He wishes his Beloved were Dead
He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
From In the Seven Woods (1903)
In the Seven Woods
The Arrow
The Folly of being Comforted
Never give all the Heart
Adam''s Curse
Red Hanrahan''s Song about Ireland
The Old Men admiring Themselves in the Water
O do not Love Too Long
From The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)
His Dream
A Woman Homer sung
Words
No Second Troy
Reconciliation
The Fascination of What''s Difficult
A Drinking Song
The Coming of Wisdom with Time
On hearing that the Students of our New University have joined the Agitation against Immoral Literature
To a Poet, who would have me Praise certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine
The Mask
Upon a House shaken by the Land Agitation
All things can tempt me
Brown Penny
From Responsibilities (1914) [Introductory Rhymes]
To a Wealthy Man who promised a second Subscription to the Dublin Municipal Gallery if it were proved the People wanted Pictures
September
To a Friend whose Work has come to Nothing
Paudeen
When Helen lived
On Those that hated ''The Playboy of the Western World,''
The Three Beggars
Beggar to Beggar cried
The Witch
The Peacock
To a Child dancing in the Wind
Two Years Later
A Memory of Youth
Fallen Majesty
Friends
The Cold Heaven
That the Night come
The Magi
The Dolls
A Coat [Closing Rhyme]
From The Wild Swans at Coole (1917)
The Wild Swans at Coole
In Memory of Major Robert Gregory
An Irish Airman foresees his Death
Men improve with the Years
The Living Beauty
A Song
The Scholars
Lines written in Dejection
On Woman
The Fisherman
Memory
The People
Broken Dreams
A Deep-sworn Vow
The Balloon of the Mind
On being asked for a War Poem
Ego Dominus Tuus
The Double Vision of Michael Robartes
From Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921)
Michael Robartes and the Dancer
Easter, 1916
Sixteen Dead Men
The Rose Tree
On a Political Prisoner
The Second Coming
A Prayer for my Daughter
To be carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee From The Tower (1928)
Sailing to Byzantium
The Tower
Meditations in Time of Civil War
Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen
A Prayer for my Son
Fragments
Leda and the Swan
Among School Children
From ''Oedipus at Colonus''
All Souls'' Night
From The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)
In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz
A Dialogue of Self and Soul
Coole Park
Coole and Ballylee
The Choice
Mohini Chatterjee
Byzantium
Vacillation
Crazy Jane and the Bishop
Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop
Her Anxiety
Lullaby
After Long Silence
Father and Child
Parting
Her Vision in the Wood
A Last Confession
From the ''Antigone''
From Parnell''s Funeral and Other Poems (1935)
Parnell''s Funeral
A Prayer for Old Age
Ribh at the Tomb of Baile and Aillinn
The Four Ages of Man
Meru
From New Poems (1938)
The Gyres
Lapis Lazuli
Imitated from the Japanese
An Acre of Grass
What Then?
Beautiful Lofty Things
Come Gather Round Me Parnellites
The Great Day
Parnell
The Spur
The Municipal Gallery Re-visited
Are You Content
From [Last Poems, 1938-39]
Under Ben Bulben
The Black Tower
Cuchulain Comforted
The Statues
Long-legged Fly
High Talk
Man and the Echo
The Circus Animals'' Desertion
Politics
Plays [Dates and order follow The Plays (2001)]
Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902)
On Baile''s Strand (1904)
Deirdre (1907)
At the Hawk''s Well (1917)
The Words upon the Window-pane (1930)
The Resurrection (1931)
Purgatory (1938)
The Death of Cuchulain (1939)
Autobiographical Writings
From Reveries Over Childhood and Youth (1916)
From The Trembling of the Veil (1922)
From Book I: Four Years, 1887-1891
From Book II: Ireland After Parnell
From Book III: Hodos Chameliontos
From Book IV: The Tragic Generation
From Book V: The Stirring of the Bones
From Dramatis Personae (1935)
From The Bounty of Sweden (1925)
From Memoirs (Written 1916-17, Published 1972)
From Journal (Written 1909-30, Published 1972)
From Pages from a Diary Written in Nineteen Hundred and Thirty (1944)
Critical Writings
From Ideas of Good and Evil (1903)
What is ''Popular Poetry''?
From Magic
William Blake and the Imagination
The Symbolism of Poetry
Ireland and the Arts
From Samhain (1903)
The Reform of the Theatre
From Samhain (1908)
First Principles
The Tragic Theatre
From Per Amica Silentia Lunae (1918)
From Anima Hominis
From Anima Mundi
From A Vision (1925, 1937)
From Introduction
From Book I: The Great Wheel
From
The Principal Symbol
From
Examination of the Wheel
From
The Twenty-eight Incarnations
From Book V: Dove or Swan
Essays for the Scribner Edition (1937)
Introduction
Introduction to Essays
Introduction to Plays
From On the Boiler (1939)
From Preliminaries
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The Yeats Reader, Revised Edition A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Prose

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