The Yeats Reader: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Prose

Throughout his long life, William Butler Yeats — Irish writer and premier lyric poet in English in this century — produced important works in every literary genre, works of astonishing range, energy, erudition, beauty, and skill. His early poetry is memorable and moving. His poems and plays of middle age address the human condition with language that has entered our vocabulary for cataclysmic personal and world events. The writings of his final years offer wisdom, courage, humor, and sheer ...