Description
Title: Selected Poems: Yeats
Author: YEATS WILLIAM
Illustrator: WEBB TIMOTHY (ED)
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 25/05/2000
Imprint: PENGUIN BOOKS
Price: $23.00
Publishing status: Active
Few have lived their ideas so passionately and nobly as W.B. Yeats in his love affairs, politics and poetry. From his youth in the 1880s, a fertile dreamer rediscovering and remaking the Irish tradition, he grew into a great and innovative poet of the twentieth century. This selection of Yeats’s work includes the final book from the unjustly neglected narrative poem The Wanderings of Oisin and a number of lyrics from Yeats’s work as poetic dramatist. This edition breaks new ground by allowing the reader to engage with a dozen poems in alternative versions; in many other cases it provides significant variants, so that Yeats’s struggle to revise his poetry can be experienced with unusual immediacy. It also includes explanatory and textual notes for each poem.
‘A compelling poetic presence … together with Joyce, Yeats made modern Irish poetry possible’ Timothy Webb
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
ISBN: 9780141181257
Weight: 255g
Dimension: 198mm X 129mm
Pages: 368
Edition: 01