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Later Poems
1926
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Book "This is Yeat's own anthology of his poetry, based on the 1922 edition, which just meets the pre-1923 requirement for public domain books in the US. This version includes some of his best known work, including Easter, 1916 ('A terrible beauty is born'), and The Second Coming ('What rough beast slouches toward Bethlehem...to be born'). Simultaneously hypermodern and bardic, Yeats' poetry speaks to the 21st century with authenticity and mystical clarity." (Quote from sacred-texts.com) Table of Publisher’s Preface; Preface; The Wind Among The Reeds (1899); 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 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 Gives His Beloved Certain Rhymes; To His 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; Maid Quiet; The Travail Of Passion; The Lover Pleads With His Friend For Old Friends; A Lover Speaks To The 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; The Fiddler Of Dooney; The Old Age Of Queen Maeve (1903); The Old Age Of Queen Maeve; Baile And Aillinn (1903); Baile And Aillinn; In The Seven Woods (1904); 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; Under The Moon; The Ragged Wood; O Do Not Love Too Long; The Players Ask For A Blessing On The Psalteries And On Themselves; The Happy Townland; The Shadowy Waters (1906); To Lady Gregory; The Harp Of Aengus; The Shadowy Waters; From The Green Helmet And Other Poems (1912); 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 New University Have Joined The Agitation Against Immoral Literature; To A Poet, Who Would Have Me Praise Certain Bad Poets, Imitators Of His And Mine; The Mask; 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 (1914); 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; On Those That Hated "the Playboy Of The Western World," 1907; The Three Beggars; The Three Hermits; Beggar To Beggar Cried; Running To Paradise; The Hour Before Dawn; A Song From The Player Queen; The Realists; I. The Witch; ii. The Peacock; The Mountain Tomb; I. To A Child Dancing In The Wind; ii. Two Years Later; A Memory Of Youth; Fallen Majesty; Friends; The Cold Heaven; That The Night Come; An Appointment; I. The Magi; ii. The Dolls; A Coat; Coda; The Wild Swans At Coole (1919); The Wild Swans At Coole; In Memory Of Major Robert Gregory; An Irish Airman Foresees His Death; Men Improve With

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W.B. Yeats
W.B. Yeats
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William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and dramatist, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years Yeats served as an Irish Senator for two terms. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years. In 1923 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for what the Nobel Committee described as "inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation." He was the first Irishman so honored. Yeats is generally considered one of the few writers who completed their greatest works after being awarded the Nobel Prize; such works include The Tower (1928) and The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1929). Yeats was born and educated in Dublin but spent his childhood in County Sligo. He studied poetry in his youth, and from an early age was fascinated by both Irish legends and the occult. Those topics feature in the first phase of his work, which lasted roughly until the turn of the century. His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889, and those slow paced and lyrical poems display debts to Edmund Spenser and Percy Bysshe Shelley, as well as to the Pre-Raphaelite poets. From 1900, Yeats' poetry grew more physical and realistic. He largely renounced the transcendental beliefs of his youth, though he remained preoccupied with physical and spiritual masks, as well as with cyclical theories of life. —from Wikipedia

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