Williamsburg Regional Library

Selected poems, W.B. Yeats ; with paintings by Jack B. Yeats

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Selected poems

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W.B. Yeats ; with paintings by Jack B. Yeats

This collection spans four decades, beginning with the 1890s lyric poems, including <U+2018>The Lake Isle of Innisfree<U+2019>, <U+2018>The Song of Wandering Aengus<U+2019> and <U+2018>He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven<U+2019>. These are followed by the more personal and political works of his middle years including <U+2018>A Prayer for my Daughter<U+2019> and <U+2018>Easter 1916<U+2019>, and his later poems, <U+2018>Sailing to Byzantium<U+2019> and <U+2018>The Circus Animals<U+2019> Desertion<U+2019>. The selection is complemented by paintings by Jack B. Yeats drawn from collections in the Tate and the National Gallery of Ireland. The introduction <U+2013> written by Yeats in 1937 for an unpublished collection of his works <U+2013> describes the development of his poetic style and changing inspirations, from his early admiration for the Romantics, men who <U+2018>tried to speak out of a people to a people<U+2019>, to his reasons for not writing in Gaelic, as well as his lifelong quest <U+2018>to make the language of poetry coincide with passionate, normal speech<U+2019>

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