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W B Yeats - Collected Poems

W B Yeats author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Vintage Publishing

Published:18th Jan '90

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The collected works of one of the last century's greatest poets, which will appeal to the general and scholarly reader alike

From the quiet beauty of 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' to the apocalyptic resonance of 'The Second Coming', this collection shows the impact of a great poet whose startling relevance to our own times grows more and more evident.W.B. Yeats' life spanned the end of the nineteeth and the beginning of the twentieth century, and his poetry reflects all the turmoil, fervour, traditions and revolutions of that period. From the quiet beauty of 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' to the apocalyptic resonance of 'The Second Coming', this collection shows the impact of a great poet whose startling relevance to our own times grows more and more evident.

My favourite poet is Yeats, who in my book is the greatest since Shakespeare -- Michael Longley
His verse is inspired;his poetic persona is magnificent... He created a poetry both lyrical and demotic, melodic and rhetorical -- Peter Ackroyd * The Times *

ISBN: 9780099723509

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 30mm

Weight: 427g

592 pages