The Winding Stair and Other Poems

The Winding Stair and Other Poems PDF Author: William Butler Yeats
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451673744
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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An exact facsimile of the 1933 first edition of W.B. Yeats’s The Winding Stair and Other Poems, a famously beautiful, elegant volume intended as a companion to The Tower—with an Introduction and notes by the eminent Yeats scholar George Bornstein. Published in 1933 when W.B. Yeats was sixty-eight, The Winding Stair and Other Poems is his longest stand-alone volume of verse. Previously unavailable as a single volume, this beautiful edition will appeal to both general readers and textual scholars. Featuring sixty-four poems from the late 1920s and early 1930s, among them such masterpieces as “Blood and the Moon,” “Byzantium,” the Coole Park poems, “Vacillation,” and two separately titled long sequences including the Crazy Jane poems and ending with the exquisite lyric “From the ‘Antigone,’” this edition also includes an Introduction and notes by celebrated Yeats scholar George Bornstein. These poems amply justify T. S. Eliot’s contention that Yeats was one of the few poets “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.”

The Winding Stair and Other Poems

The Winding Stair and Other Poems PDF Author: William Butler Yeats
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451673744
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Book Description
An exact facsimile of the 1933 first edition of W.B. Yeats’s The Winding Stair and Other Poems, a famously beautiful, elegant volume intended as a companion to The Tower—with an Introduction and notes by the eminent Yeats scholar George Bornstein. Published in 1933 when W.B. Yeats was sixty-eight, The Winding Stair and Other Poems is his longest stand-alone volume of verse. Previously unavailable as a single volume, this beautiful edition will appeal to both general readers and textual scholars. Featuring sixty-four poems from the late 1920s and early 1930s, among them such masterpieces as “Blood and the Moon,” “Byzantium,” the Coole Park poems, “Vacillation,” and two separately titled long sequences including the Crazy Jane poems and ending with the exquisite lyric “From the ‘Antigone,’” this edition also includes an Introduction and notes by celebrated Yeats scholar George Bornstein. These poems amply justify T. S. Eliot’s contention that Yeats was one of the few poets “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.”

Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems

Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems PDF Author: William Butler Yeats
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 690

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This edition records every draft, from Yeats's first notion to the published version, a majority both in facsimile (in Yeats's fiercely illegible hand) and in faithful transcription on facing pages.

"Easter 1916" and Other Poems

Author: William Butler Yeats
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486114228
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Compilation of all the poems from The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) and Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) includes "The Second Coming," "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death," many others.

The Winding Stair and Other Poems

The Winding Stair and Other Poems PDF Author: W. B. Yeats
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781419288074
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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BRING me to the blasted oak That I, midnight upon the stroke, (All find safety in the tomb.) May call down curses on his head Because of my dear Jack that's dead. Coxcomb was the least he said: The solid man and the coxcomb.

The Winding Stair (1929)

The Winding Stair (1929) PDF Author: William Butler Yeats
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manuscripts, English
Languages : en
Pages : 312

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Clark traces the evolution of each poem up through the 1933 volume.

Essays

Essays PDF Author: William Butler Yeats
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Essays
Languages : en
Pages : 554

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Best-Loved Yeats

Best-Loved Yeats PDF Author: W. B. Yeats
Publisher: The O'Brien Press
ISBN: 1847174337
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 91

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I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams ... Some of the most famous lines in Irish poetry come from the pen of William Butler Yeats, poet, patriot, dramatist and senator. This illustrated collection of forty of his best-loved works, on Love, Politics, Old Age, Myth and Legend includes people, places and events that were important to him.

A Poet to His Beloved

A Poet to His Beloved PDF Author: William Butler Yeats
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312619862
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 92

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A collection of forty-one early love poems by William Butler Yeates.

Parnell's Funeral and Other Poems from A Full Moon in March

Parnell's Funeral and Other Poems from A Full Moon in March PDF Author: William Butler Yeats
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ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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The manuscripts transcribed and reproduced in this volume of the Cornell Yeats were written from spring 1933 through December 1934. "Parnell's Funeral and Other Poems" is the third section of W. B. Yeats's book A Full Moon in March (1935), following the two plays A Full Moon in March and The King of the Great Clock Tower. David R. Clark's introduction relates biographical events to what the manuscripts show about the chronological order in which the poems were written. The poems, which illuminate such facets of Yeats's life as the poet's flirtations with fascism and Hinduism and his concern, at age sixty-eight, that his poetic powers were waning, are presented in the order in which they appeared in A Full Moon in March. Of the twenty-one poems here, eighteen are called songs. Only "Parnell's Funeral" itself is un-songlike, a somber and powerful declaration made by a Parnellite. Each poem is accompanied by comments on its content and its manuscripts. Ninety-nine illustrations show Yeats's handwritten drafts, typescripts, and revisions. Because of the poems' exotic references, a long section of the introduction provides relevant material from Yeats's letters and commentary and an independent analysis of each poem. Early in his career Yeats, with his fellow poets in the Rymers' Club, had "taken delight in poetry that was, before all else, speech or song, and could hold the attention of a fitting audience like a good play or a good conversation." Throughout "Parnell's Funeral and Other Poems," Yeats's desire for a direct lyrical urge is evident.

Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks

Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks PDF Author: Fintan O'Toole
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ISBN: 9781908996923
Category : Art, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Book Description
The Irish Times literary editor Fintan O'Toole selects 100 artworks to narrate a history of Ireland.