The Major WorksThis authoritative edition was first published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Yeats's poetry and prose - all the major poems, complemented by plays, critical writings, and letters - to give theessence of his work and thinking.W. B. Yeats was born in 1865, only 38 years after the death of William Blake, and died in 1939, the contemporary of Ezra Pound and James Joyce. His career crossed two centuries, and this volume represents the full range of his achievement, from the Romantic early poems of Crossways and thesymbolist masterpiece The Wind Among the Reeds to his last poems. Myth and folk-tale influence both his poems and his plays, represented here by Cathleen ni Houlihan and Deirdre among others. The importance of the spirit world to his life and work is evident in his critical essays and occultwritings, and the anthology also contains political speeches, autobiographical writings, and a selection of his letters.This one-volume collection of poems and prose offers a unique perspective on the connectedness of Yeats's literary output, showing how his aesthetic, spiritual, and political development was reflected in everything he wrote. |
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Song | 20 |
Her Praise 69 | 26 |
Acre of Grass An 156 | 37 |
That the Night Come | 58 |
Do not because this day I have grown saturnine | 84 |
Among School Children | 113 |
Hound Voice 175 | 117 |
Crazy Jane on the Mountain | 165 |
Before the World was Made 143 | 169 |
In Memory of Eva GoreBooth and Con Markievicz 120 | 171 |
Moods | 343 |
Crazy Jane Reproved | 510 |
Blood and the Moon 124 | 539 |
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Apparitions The 178 | 129 |
Those Dancing Days are Gone | 141 |
I am of Ireland | 142 |
Baile and Aillinn 201 | 149 |
Imitated from the Japanese | 154 |
Those Images | 162 |
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