Selected Poems

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WB Yeats's Selected Poems is edited with an introduction & notes by Timothy Webb in Penguin Modern Classics Few have lived their ideas so passionately & nobly as WB Yeats in his love affairs politics & poetry From his youth in the 1880s a fertile dreamer rediscovering & remaking the Irish tradition he grew into a great & innovative poet of the twentieth century This selection of Yeats's work

Includes:: the final book from the unjustly neglected narrative poem The Wanderings of Oisin & a number of lyrics from Yeats's work as poetic dramatist This edition breaks new ground by allowing the reader to engage with a dozen poems in alternative versions; in many other cases it provides significant variants so that Yeats's struggle to revise his poetry can be experienced with unusual immediacy It also

Includes:: explanatory & textual notes for each poem W B Yeats (1865-1939) was one of the great & innovative poets of the twentieth century Much of his most vigorous verse on love sex Irish & international politics the complexities of the occult & the 'sedentary toil' of poetry was produced in the years between his fiftieth birthday in 1915 & his death in 1939 If you enjoyed Selected Poems you might like The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry also available in Penguin Classics'A compelling poetic presence together with Joyce Yeats made modern Irish poetry possible' Timothy Webb