W. B. Yeats

by William Butler Yeats

Overview

In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets in our literature.

W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) was born in Dublin, and was educated in Ireland and England. He was instrumental in the development of a national Irish theatre - and in particular, the founding of the Abbey Theatre. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780571222964
Publisher:	Faber and Faber
Publication date:	03/04/2004
Series:	Faber Poetry
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	4.70(w) x 7.80(h) x (d)

About the Author

William Butler Yeats[a] (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served as a Senator of the Irish Free State for two terms. Yeats was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and others.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

EARLY POEMS I: BALLADS AND LYRICS:
To Some I Have Talked with by the Fire - The Song of the Happy Shepherd - The Sad Shepherd - The Cloak, The Boat, and The Shoes - Anashuya and Vijaya - The Indian Upon God - The Indian to His Love - The Falling of the Leaves - Ephemera - The Madness of King Goll - The Stolen Child To An Isle in the Water - Down by the Salley Gardens - The Meditation of the Old Fisherman - The Ballad of Father O'Hart - The Ballad of Moll Magee - The Ballad of the Foxhunter

EARLY POEMS II:
THE ROSE: To the Rose Upon the Rood of Time - Fergus and the Druid - The Death of Cuchulain The Rose of the World - The Rose of Peace - The Rose of Battle - A Faery Song - The Lake Isle of Innisfree - A Cradle Song - The Pity of Love - The Sorrow of Love - When You Are Old - The White Birds - A Dream of Death - A Dream of a Blessed Spirit - The Man Who Dreamed of Faeryland - The Dedication to a Book of Stories Selected from the Irish Novelists - The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner - The Ballad of Father Gilligan - The Two Trees To Ireland in the Coming Times

THE WIND AMONG THE REEDS: The Hosting of the Sidhe - The Everlasting Voices - The Moods - The Lover Tells of the Rose in His Heart - The Host of the Air - The Fisherman - A Cradle Song - Into the Twilight - The Song of Wandering Aengus - The Song of the Old Mother - The Fiddler of Dooney - The Heart of the Woman - The Lover Mourns for the Loss of Love - He Mourns for the Change that Has Come Upon Him and His Beloved and Longs for the End of the World - He Bids His Beloved Be At Peace - He Reproves the Curlew - He Remembers Forgotten Beauty - A Poet to His Beloved - He GivesHis Beloved Certain Rhymes - To My Heart Bidding It Have No Fear - The Cap and Bells - The Valley of the Black Pig - The Lover Asks Forgiveness -Because of His Many Moods - He Tells of a Valley Full of Lovers - He Tells of the Perfect Beauty- He Hears the Cry of the Sedge - He Thinks of Those Who Have Spoken Evil of His Beloved - The Blessed - The Secret Rose - The Lover Mourns Because of His Wanderings - The Travail of Passion - The Lover Pleads with His Friend for Old Friends - A Lover Speaks to Hearers of His Songs in Coming Days - The Poet Pleads with the Elemental Powers - He Wishes His Beloved were Dead - He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven - He Thinks of His Past Greatness When a Part of the Constellations of Heaven

IN THE SEVEN WOODS:
In the Seven Woods - The Arrow - The Folly of Being Comforted - Old Memory - Never Give All the Heart - The Withering of the Boughs - Adam's Curse - Red Hanrahan's Song About Ireland - The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water - Upon the Moon - Chorus for a Play - The Players Ask for a Blessing of the Psalteries and Themselves - The Happy Townland

THE OLD AGE OF QUEEN MAEVE:
The Old Age of Queen Maeve

BAILE AND AILLINN:
Baile and Aillinn

THE GREEN HELMET AND OTHER POEMS:
His Dream -A Woman Homer Sung - The Consolation - No Second Troy - Reconciliation - King and No King - Peace - Against Unworthy Praise - The Fascination of What's Difficult - A Drinking Song - The Coming of Wisdom with Time - On Hearing that the Students of Our University Have Joined the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Agitation Against Immoral Literature - To a Poet, Who Would Have Me Praise Certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine - A Lyric from an Unpublished Play - Upon a House Shaken by the Land Agitation - At the Abbey Theatre - These Are the Clouds- At Galway Races - A Friend's Illness - All Things Can Tempt Me - The Young Man's Song

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Introductory Rhymes - The Grey Rock - The Two Kings - To a Wealthy Man Who Promised a Second Subscription to the Dublin Municipal Gallery if it Were Proved the People Wanted Pictures - September 1913 - To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing - Paudeen - To a Shade - When Helen Lived - The Attack on the "Playboy of the Western World", 1907 - The Three Beggars - The Three Hermits - Beggar to Beggar Cried - The Well and the Tree - Running to Paradise - The Hour Before Dawn - The Player Queen - The Realists I. The Witch II. The Peacock - The Mountain Tomb - To a Child Dancing in the Wind - A Memory of Youth - Fallen Majesty - Friends - The Cold Heaven - That the Night Come - An Appointment - The Magi - The Dolls - A Coat - Closing Rhymes