Selected Poems: Annotated Edition (Great Poets Series)

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The present selection traces the development of Yeatss verse, encompassing the poets interest in Irish folklore and national identity, his engagement with the political situation of his day and the rich symbolism that is the hallmark of his work and a reflection of his lifelong fascination with the occult. It contains some of his best-known pieces, including the elegiac Easter 1916, the apocalyptic The Second Coming and the reflective and spiritual Sailing to Byzantium. Often radical in content but always traditional in form, these poems are by turns startling and affecting, and never less than inspired. Taken together, they form an ideal introduction to the poetic career of one of Irelands greatest literary figures.

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Yeats is like a mountain range, lying on the horizon. He cant be emulated; you just walk around under the shade. -- Seamus Heaney

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W.B. Yeats (18651939) is one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, as well as a dramatist, critic and essayist. Closely associated with the Irish Literary Revival, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.