The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

W. B. Yeats was Romantic and Modernist mystical dreamer and leader of the Irish Literary Revival Nobel prize winner dramatist and above all poet He began writing with the intention of putting his very self into his poems T S Eliot one of many who proclaimed the Irishmans greatness 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 For anyone interested in the literature of the late nineteenth century and the twentieth century Yeatss work is essential This volume gathers the full range of his published poetry from the hauntingly beautiful early lyrics by which he is still fondly remembered to the magnificent later poems which put beyond question his status as major poet of modern times Paradoxical proud and passionate Yeats speaks today as eloquently as ever