A Book of Irish Verse

by William Butler Yeats

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781134438587
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/29/2005
Series:	Routledge Classics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	312 KB

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Routledge Classics Edition, Preface, Modern Irish Poetry, List of Poems, Anonymous, notes

Editorial Reviews

The poet Yeats compiled this collection and tried to point out a new direction for Irish poetry in the process: Book Of Irish Verse republishes the original 1900 work, presenting lesser-known but still significant poets in an excellent collection.

'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

'You were silly like us; your gift survived it all;The parish of rich women, physical decay, yourself;Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.' - W.H Auden, In Memory of W.B. Yeats

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