Selected Poems by W. B. Yeats
W. B. Yeats's Selected Poems is edited with an introduction and notes by Timothy Webb in Penguin Modern Classics
Few have lived their ideas so passionately and nobly as W. B. Yeats in his love affairs, politics and poetry. From his youth in the 1880s, a fertile dreamer rediscovering and remaking the Irish tradition, he grew into a great and 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 and 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 and textual notes for each poem.
About the Author
W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) was one of the great and innovative poets of the twentieth century. Much of his most vigorous verse on love, sex, Irish and international politics, the complexities of the occult and the ''sedentary toil'' of poetry was produced in the years between his fiftieth birthday in 1915 and his death in 1939.
Format: Paperback | 368 pages
Dimensions (cm): 19.8 x 12.9 x 1.6 | 262g
Publication Date: 02 Jan 2001
Publisher: Penguin Books
Publication City/Country: London, United Kingdom
Language: English
Edition Statement: reissue
ISBN10: 0141181257
ISBN13: 9780141181257
Condition: Good
A vintage book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including very minor creasing and very minor scuff marks along the edges. There is also a very small blob of discolouring on the bottom-left side of the back cover, but no holes or tears. The majority of pages are undamaged with very minimal creasing, but no tearing. No pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text and no writing in margins. No missing pages.