W. B. Yeats

by W.B. Yeats (Author), Seamus Heaney (Editor)

• New

  Hardcover
  2009

  $14.37

  W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) was not only Ireland's greatest poet but one of the most influential voices in world literature in the twentieth century. His extraordinary work, in the words of this volume's editor Seamus Heaney, encourages us to be more resolutely and abundantly alive, whatever the conditions. Other volumes in this series include: Auden , Betjemen , Eliot , Hughes , and Plath .

• Used

  Paperback
  1990

  $3.27

  Nothing more accurately mirrors the changing tides of Yeats's life than do his love poems, from the youthful verses inspired by Maud Gonne to the Testimony of Later Years written beside the flooded lake at Coole. These verses chart his dreams and devotions, moods of ecstasy and despair, and moments of sensuality and disillusion. In his introduction to this edition of Yeats's love poems, Professor Jeffares sets the work into the framework of Yeats's life. He explores the influences that shaped the verses, the friends and lovers who provoked such feeling, and the arts and the cults that influenced his thoughts.