"Easter 1916" and Other Poems

Author: William Butler Yeats
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486114228
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Compilation of all the poems from The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) and Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) includes "The Second Coming," "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death," many others.

"Easter 1916" and Other Poems

Author: William Butler Yeats
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486114228
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 80

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Book Description
Compilation of all the poems from The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) and Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) includes "The Second Coming," "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death," many others.

"Easter, 1916" and Other Poems

Author: William Butler Yeats
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486297713
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 83

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Immortal verses by one of the 20th century's greatest poets appear in this compilation of all the poems from The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) and Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921). Includes "The Second Coming," "A Prayer for My Daughter," "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death," and many others.

A Terrible Beauty Is Born

A Terrible Beauty Is Born PDF Author: W. B. Yeats
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241251532
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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'But I, being poor, have only my dreams; / I have spread my dreams under your feet...' By turns joyful and despairing, some of the twentieth century's greatest verse on fleeting youth, fervent hopes and futile sacrifice.

"Easter 1916" and Other Poems

Author: William Butler Yeats
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781306331326
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Compilation of all the poems from "The Wild Swans at Coole" (1919) and "Michael Robartes and the Dancer" (1921) includes The Second Coming, An Irish Airman Foresees His Death, many others.

Easter, 1916. [A Poem.].

Easter, 1916. [A Poem.]. PDF Author: William Butler Yeats
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A Terrible Beauty

A Terrible Beauty PDF Author: Mairéad Ashe FitzGerald
Publisher: The O'Brien Press
ISBN: 1847177697
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 134

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'A terrible beauty is born' WB Yeats's poignant words have come to immortalise the complex legacy of the Easter Rising, 1916. The poetry that emerged at this time of upheaval in Ireland gave voice to the thoughts of a generation. Yeats's poem, 'Easter 1916', sits alongside selected works of other major poets of the era. These include Patrick Pearse, Thomas MacDonagh and Joseph Plunkett, who were executed for their part in the Rising. In the aftermath of the Rising an outpouring of poetry also expressed the shock and grief of literary figures such as Padraic Colum, Francis Ledwidge, Eva Gore-Booth, James Stephens, Dora Sigerson Shorter and Seán O'Casey. Rebels, soldiers, honorary Irishmen, sympathisers and exiles all held up a mirror, in verse, to the events, beliefs and desires bound up in 1916.

Yeats and Violence

Yeats and Violence PDF Author: Michael Wood
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199557667
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Includes the poem, Nineteen hundred and nineteen.

Poems of the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood

Poems of the Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood PDF Author: Padraic Colum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 122

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Later Poems

Later Poems PDF Author: William Butler Yeats
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 390

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Selected Poems

Selected Poems PDF Author: W. B. Yeats
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781727049244
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 142

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A mystical dreamer and leader of the Irish Literary Revival, romantic and modernist, Nobel prizewinner, dramatist and, above all, poet, W.B.Yeats starts writing with the motive of putting his 'very self' into his poems. T.S.Eliot, one of many who affirms the Irishman's greatness, described Yeats 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 concerned in the literature of the twentieth century, Yeat's poetry claims to be read. This volume combines poetry from the nostalgic charming early lyrics by which he is still best remembered, to the marvelous later work, which put beyond question his position as the principal poet of his age. From mastery tellings of old Irish myths and legends to eloquent meditations on the clamors and rewards of youth and old age, these elegant, occasionally playful songs of love, nature and art stand in dramatic comparison to the obscure and angry poems of life in a nation changed by war and disturbance. In the affluent and frequent imagery of the rose, the gyre and the tower the reader can trace Yeats's quest to join intellect and artistry in one fascinating ideal. Included in this edition, the play "Countess Cathleen" tales place in a historically in Ireland during a famine. The idealistic Countess of the title sells her soul to the devil so that she can save her tenants from starvation and from damnation for having sold their own souls. After her death, she is redeemed, as her motives were altruistic and ascend to Heaven.