| Description |
xxv, 132 pages ; 20 cm |
| Series |
Faber poetry |
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Poet-to-poet series |
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Faber poetry
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Poet-to-poet
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| Contents |
The Indian upon God -- The Stolen Child -- Down by the Salley Gardens -- The Meditation of the Old Fisherman -- Cuchulain's Fight with the Sea -- The Rose of the World -- The Lake Isle of Innisfree -- When You Are Old -- Who Goes with Fergus? -- The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner -- To Ireland in the Coming Times -- The Host of the Air -- The Song of Wandering Aengus -- The Heart of the Woman -- He hears the Cry of the Sedge -- He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven -- He thinks of his Past Greatness when a Part of the Constellations of Heaven -- The Fiddler of Dooney -- The Folly of being Comforted -- Adam's Curse -- Red Hanrahan's Song about Ireland -- No Second Troy -- The Fascination of What's Difficult -- The Coming of Wisdom with Time -- Upon a House Shaken by the Land Agitation -- At Galway Races -- September 1913 -- To a Friend whose Work has come to Nothing -- Paudeen -- To a Shade -- Running to Paradise -- Fallen Majesty -- The Cold Heaven -- The Magi -- The Wild Swans at Coole -- In Memory of Major Robert Gregory -- An Irish Airman Foresees His Death -- The Collar-Bone of a Hare -- The Fisherman -- Memory -- Her Praise -- Broken Dreams -- To a Squirrel at Kyle-na-no -- Ego Dominus Tuus -- Easter 1916 -- Sixteen Dead Men -- The Second Coming -- To Be Carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee -- Sailing to Byzantium -- Meditations in Time of Civil War -- Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen -- Leda and the Swan -- Among School Children -- In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz -- A Dialogue of Self and Soul -- Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931 -- For Anne Gregory -- Swift's Epitaph -- The Choice -- Mohini Chatterjee -- Byzantium -- Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop -- After Long Silence -- Mad as the Mist and Snow -- The Delphic Oracle upon Plotinus -- A Last Confession -- Ribh at the Tomb of Baile and Aillinn -- Whence had they Come? -- The Four Ages of Man -- Meru -- Lapis Lazuli -- An Acre of Grass -- What Then? -- Beautiful Loft Things -- The Curse of Cromwell -- The O'Rahilly -- Come Gather round me, Parnellites -- The Great Day -- The Pilgrim -- The Municipal Gallery Revisited -- From Under Ben Bulben -- Cuchulain Comforted -- The Statues -- News for the Delphic Oracle -- Long-legged Fly -- High Talk -- The Circus Animals' Desertion -- The Man and the Echo -- Politics |
| Summary |
POETRY BY INDIVIDUAL POETS. In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors offer insights into their own work as well as providing an accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest poets in our literature. W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) was born in Dublin, and was educated in Ireland and England. He was instrumental in the development of a national Irish theatre - and in particular, the founding of the Abbey Theatre. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923 |
| Notes |
Originally published: 2000 |
| Subject |
Poets, Irish -- 20th century.
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| Author |
Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013.
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| ISBN |
057122296X |
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9780571222964 |
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