The Collected Works of William Butler Yeats(1966)

W.B. YeatsAna Luísa Faria

This Halcyon Classics collection contains dozens of works by William Butler Yeats, one of the foremost figures of 20th-Century English-language poetry, drama, and literature. Yeats (1865-1939) is best known for his poetry, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923, the first Irish writer so honored.

Yeats was born and educated in Dublin, studying poetry in his youth. From an early age he was fascinated by both Irish legends and the occult. Those topics feature in the first phase of his work, which lasted roughly until the turn of the century. His earliest volume of poetry was published in 1889. Yeats was also an important figure in the Irish Literary Revival, and a fervent Irish nationalist as well.

Contents:

Poetry Collections

In the Seven Woods
Michael Robartes and the Dancer
The Celtic Twilight
The Green Helmet and Other Poems
The Wild Swans and Coole


Drama

The Countess Cathleen
The Hour-Glass
The Land of Heart’s Desire
The Unicorn from the Stars


Fiction

Irish Fairy Tales
Rosa Alchemica
Stories of Red Hanrahan
The Secret Rose


Biography

Four Years
Synge and the Ireland of His Time

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