Selected Poems and Two Plays of William Butler Yeats

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"CÁST A COLD EY: OM LIFE, ON DEATH.. This discriminating selection of 195 poems represents the essential poetic achievement of the greatest poet to write English in our time. The poems have been taken from fourteen of the single volumes, covering the years 1 889 through 1939, and are printed from the most reliabie texts and in the sequence set by Yeats himself. Yeats* genius as a poetic dramatist is here represented by two of his most brilliant plays, Calvary and Purgatory. WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS » the most widely admired, by common reader and sophisticate alike, of all modern poets who have written in English, Early and late he has the simple, indispensable gift of enchanting the ear He was alsó the poet who, while very much of his own day in Ireland, spoke best to the people of all ^ countries. And though he plunged deeply into arcane o studies, his themes are most clearly the generál ones of 5 life and death, love and hate, man's condition and history's meanings. He began as a... Tovább

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"CÁST A COLD EY: OM LIFE, ON DEATH.. This discriminating selection of 195 poems represents the essential poetic achievement of the greatest poet to write English in our time. The poems have been taken from fourteen of the single volumes, covering the years 1 889 through 1939, and are printed from the most reliabie texts and in the sequence set by Yeats himself. Yeats* genius as a poetic dramatist is here represented by two of his most brilliant plays, Calvary and Purgatory. WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS » the most widely admired, by common reader and sophisticate alike, of all modern poets who have written in English, Early and late he has the simple, indispensable gift of enchanting the ear He was alsó the poet who, while very much of his own day in Ireland, spoke best to the people of all ^ countries. And though he plunged deeply into arcane o studies, his themes are most clearly the generál ones of 5 life and death, love and hate, man's condition and history's meanings. He began as a sometimes effete post-Romantic, gheir to the Pre-Raphaelites, and then, quite naturally, be- L came a leading British symbolist; but he grew at last into n the boldest, most vigorous voice of this century. ÜP - from the Introduction jj M. L. Rosenthal, distinguished critic, editor, and § professor of English at New York University, has provided notes, a glossary of names and places, and an introduction jjr which surveys Yeats* development, his life and thought, o his techniques and uses of symbolism. Vissza