A Book of Irish Verse
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:11th Jul '02
Should be back in stock very soon
This paperback is available in another edition too:
- Hardback£89.99(9780415289825)
In 1895 the thirty-year-old W.B. Yeats, already established as one of Ireland's leading poets and folklorists, published this outstanding collection of Irish verse as part of his campaign to establish a tradition of Irish poetry fit for the dawn of a new age in Ireland's history. This Routledge Classics edition, complete with a specially commissioned introduction by acclaimed writer and critic John Banville, is essential reading for all who appreciate good literature.
'Yeats was one of the few whose history is the history of their own time, who are a part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them.' - T.S. Eliot
'You were silly like us; your gift survived it all;The parish of rich women, physical decay, yourself;Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.' - W.H Auden, In Memory of W.B. Yeats
'Yeats was one of the few whose history is the history of their own time, who are a part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them.' - T.S. Eliot
ISBN: 9780415289832
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 220g
208 pages
2nd edition