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The collected works of Ireland´s greatest lyric poet with an introduction by author and academic Dr Robert Mighall.

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As well as being one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century and the recipient of the 1923 Nobel Prize for Literature, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is the greatest lyric poet that Ireland has produced.

Part of the Macmillan Collector´s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon markers. These beautiful books make perfect gifts or a treat for any book lover. This edition features an illuminating introduction by author and academic Dr Robert Mighall.

Yeats´ early work includes the beguiling ´When You are Old´, ´The Cloths of Heaven´ and ´The Lake Isle of Innisfree´ but, unusually for a poet, Yeats´s later works, including ´Parnell´s Funeral´, surpass even those of his youth. All are present in this volume, which reproduces the 1933 edition of W. B. Yeats´s Collected Poems.

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It is universally agreed that Yeats became a great poet Denis Donoghue The Irish Times

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William Butler Yeats was born in 1865 in County Dublin. With his much-loved early poems such as ´The Stolen Child´, and ´He Remembers Forgotten Beauty´, he defined the Celtic Twilight mood of the late-Victorian period and led the Irish Literary Renaissance. Yet his style evolved constantly, and he is acknowledged as a major figure in literary modernism and twentieth-century European letters. T. S. Eliot described him as ´one of those few whose history is the history of their own time, who are part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them´. W. B. Yeats died in 1939.

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