I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams ... Some of the most famous lines in Irish poetry come from the pen of William Butler Yeats, poet, patriot, dramatist and senator. This illustrated collection of forty of his best-loved works, on Love, Politics, Old Age, Myth and Legend includes people, places and events that were important to him.
My Captain!"; Dickinson: "This Is My Letter to the World"; Frost: "The Road Not Taken.
Including unpublished work, this gorgeous book draws on Yeats's preoccupation with magic, fairy lore, place, family and childhood. A mystical and magical tone that pervades the collection will enthral younger readers.
In the opinion of many critics, Yeats is the greatest poet of the twentieth century.
This book brings together over seventy of his poems from all stages of Yeats's extraordinary life: a wonderful legacy that shows, without a doubt, that his heart belonged to Ireland - 'I am', he wrote, 'of Ireland'.
Poems deal with unrequited love, sorrow, loss, nature, dreams, women, aging, beauty, forgiveness, and poetry
This new edition of The Collected Poems of W.B.Yeats includes all of the poems authorised for publication by Yeats in his lifetime.
The Tower was W. B. Yeats's first major collection of poetry as Nobel Laureate after the receiving the Nobel Prize in 1923. It is considered to be one of his most influential collections.
(0-486-26878-0) THE ROAD NOT TAKEN AND OTHER POEMS, Robert Frost. (0-486-27550-7) AFRICAN-AMERICAN POETRY: An Anthology, 1773-1927, Edited by Joan R. Sherman. (0-486-29604-0) GREAT SHORT POEMS, Edited by Paul Negri.
The volume will include all the major love poems written most notably for the brilliant yet elusive Irish revolutionary Maude Gonne.
Recounts the life of the Irish poet and nationalist, describes his relationships with his contemporaries, and traces his interest in the occult.