Collected Poems

Hardback

Main Details

Title Collected Poems
Authors and Contributors      By (author) W B Yeats
Introduction by Robert Mighall
SeriesMacmillan Collector's Library
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:480
Dimensions(mm): Height 157,Width 102
Category/GenrePoetry by individual poets
ISBN/Barcode 9781909621640
ClassificationsDewey:821.8
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Pan Macmillan
Imprint Macmillan Collector's Library
Publication Date 14 July 2016
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

As well as being one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century and the recipient of the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is the greatest lyric poet that Ireland has produced. His early work includes the beguiling 'When You are Old', 'The Cloths of Heaven' and 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' but, unusually for a poet, Yeats's later works, including 'Parnell's Funeral', surpass even those of his youth. All are present in this volume, which reproduces the 1933 edition of W. B. Yeats's Collected Poems and also contains an illuminating introduction by author and academic Dr Robert Mighall. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.

Author Biography

William Butler Yeats was born in 1865 in County Dublin. With his much-loved early poems such as 'The Stolen Child', and 'He Remembers Forgotten Beauty', he defined the Celtic Twilight mood of the late-Victorian period and led the Irish Literary Renaissance. Yet his style evolved constantly, and he is acknowledged as a major figure in literary modernism and twentieth-century European letters. 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'. W. B. Yeats died in 1939.

Reviews

It is universally agreed that Yeats became a great poet -- Denis Donoghue * The Irish Times * "The Second Coming" is proof that a perfect poem can still go viral in a distinctly predigital way: that it's become a part of the culture's water supply -- Nick Tabor * The Paris Review *