The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats brings together the verse of William Butler Yeats, the Irish poet and dramatist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923. The volume traces his long career, from the dreamy, romantic, and folkloric poems of his early years through the spare, more direct, and politically charged work of his maturity. Yeats drew on Irish mythology, his involvement in the Irish nationalist movement, his unrequited love for Maud Gonne, and his lifelong interest in mysticism and the occult, including the symbolic system he set out in A Vision. Famous poems such as The Second Coming, Sailing to Byzantium, Easter 1916, and The Lake Isle of Innisfree appear here. The collection shows the development of one of the central figures of modern poetry across decades of changing style.
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A gathering of the poetry of W.B. Yeats, the Irish Nobel laureate whose work spans myth, love, politics, and the supernatural.
Yes. William Butler Yeats won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923.
They include The Second Coming, Sailing to Byzantium, Easter 1916, and The Lake Isle of Innisfree.
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats was written by William Butler Yeats, published in 1895 by Picador.
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats is 592 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats takes most readers 9 to 13 hours to finish.
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