W.B.Yeats: The Love Poems

by W. B. Yeats (Author), A. Norman Jeffares (Editor)

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  1990

  $4.95

  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.

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  Paperback
  2002

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  'Man is in love and loves what vanishes,/ What more is there to say?' Yeats' idealism permeates his love poetry, whether it is his love for Maud Gonne, Olivia Shakespear or even for Ireland itself. This was the essence of Yeats' genius, central to the attraction he holds for readers today. However, following his disillusionment in middle age after Maud Gonne married John MacBride, his style became more direct, austere and forceful. Yeats' comments on loves in his later life are particularly evocative, providing deeply moving portraits of people and places. In old age Yeats wrote with an increasing urgency and at times even of disappointment and tragedy, but he continued to portray the experience of love most effectively and challengingly. An excellent introduction puts Yeats' work within the context of his life and loves; the notes accompanying each poem putting each, from the youthful Rose of Intellectual Beauty to the Testimony of Later Years, into the sharpest possible focus.

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  2009

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  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 .

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  Hardcover
  2009

  $15.40

  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 .