Collected Poems

Informationen zum Autor As well as being one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is the greatest lyric poet that Ireland has ever produced. He was the acknowledged leader of the Irish Literary Renaissance, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.His earl lyrical poetry includes 'When You Are Old', 'The Cloths of Heaven' and 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' but, unusually for a poet, Yeats's later work surpasses the poems of his youth. T. S. Eliot described him as 'one of those few whose history is the history of their own time, who are part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them'. Zusammenfassung As well as being one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is the greatest lyric poet that Ireland has produced. He was the acknowledged leader of the Irish Literary Renaissance, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. His early lyrical poetry includes 'When You are Old', 'The Cloths of Heaven' and 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' but, unusually for a poet, Yeats's later work surpasses the poems of his youth. This volume contains all the poems from the 1933 edition of Collected Poems , the last anthology to be published in the poet's lifetime. With an Introduction by Dr Robert Mighall.

Product details

• Authors: W B Yeats, W. B. Yeats, W.B. Yeats, William Butler Yeats
• Publisher: Collector's Library
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: from age 18
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2010
• EAN: 9781905716838
• ISBN: 978-1-905716-83-8
• No. of pages: 692
• Dimensions: 103 mm x 157 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Collector's Library; Macmillan Collector's Library; Macmillan Collector's Library; Collector's Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Gedichte, Reime (dt.) div., POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Inspirational & Religious, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Places, Ireland, Narrative theme: Politics, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Modernism, Poetry by individual poets, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Romanticism, c 1930 to c 1939, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Classic and pre-20th century poetry, Valentine?s Day, Valentine’s Day / Lovers’ days, County Dublin, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Animals & Nature