A Book of Irish Verse (Routledge Classics)

A Book of Irish Verse (Routledge Classics)

by W. B. Yeats (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
Edition: 2
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 11 Jul 2002

ISBN 10: 0415289831
ISBN 13: 9780415289832

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'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
Author Bio
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). One of the great poets of the modern age. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Poetry in 1923.