W. B. Yeats: Selected Poems
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William Butler Yeats, the first Irishman to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, is not only one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century but one of the most widely read. The landscape, myths, legends, and folklore of his homeland lie at the heart of his poetic imagination, and the unique musicality of Ireland adds to the richness of his verse. But the themes of his poetry are universal and timeless: the conflict between life and death, love and hate, and the meaning of manтАЩs existence in an imperfect world.
This collection includes such favorites as тАЬThe Lake Isle of InnisfreeтАЭ and тАЬWhen You Are Old,тАЭ as well as two of his longer narrative works, тАЬThe Old Age of Queen MaeveтАЭ and тАЬBaile and Aillinn.тАЭ It traces the poetтАЩs artistry from his early days as a dreamy, late-romantic poet into one of the most individual and visionary voices of twentieth-century verse.
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William Butler Yeats (1865тАУ1939) was an Irish poet and dramatist. Born and educated in Dublin, he studied poetry in his youth and, from an early age, was fascinated by Irish legend and the occult. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival. He is generally considered one of the twentieth centuryтАЩs key English language poets. He was a Symbolist poet, in that he used allusive imagery and symbolic structures throughout his career. In 1923 he was awarded a Nobel Prize in Literature for what the Nobel Committee described as тАЬinspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation.тАЭ He was the first Irishman so honored. He is generally considered one of the few writers who completed their greatest works after being awarded the Nobel Prize; such works include The Tower (1928) and The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1929).
