Books by William Butler Yeats

The Countess Cathleen (1892) is a verse drama by W.B. Yeats. Dedicated to Maud Gonne, an actress and revolutionary whom Yeats unsuccessfully courted for years, The Countess Cathleen underwent several editions before being performed in its final version at Dublin¿s Abbey Theatre in 1911.Based on an Irish legend, the play, set during a period of intense famine, follows a land-owning Countess who decides to sacrifice her wealth and property in order to save the starving Irish people. As dusk gathers, a family prepares for dinner in their rural home. The fire is lit, and Shemus, the father, has returned home from a day of hunting with nothing to show for it. As they scrounge what they can to make themselves a meal, the Countess Cathleen arrives to ask them for directions. Touched by their suffering, the Countess returns home and begins to wonder what she can do to alleviate their difficult circumstances. Impatient, Shemus yells to the darkening woods to welcome whatever being, angel or devil, that would bring them money or something to eat. When two merchants arrive offering him gold for his services, it appears that the Countess, despite her good intentions, may already be too late. The Countess Cathleen is a drama written in blank verse that explores themes of poverty, faith, and Irish independence.With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of W.B. Yeats¿s The Countess Cathleen is a classic of Irish literature reimagined for modern readers.

Ideas of Good and Evil (1903) is a collection of wide-ranging essays by Irish poet W.B. Yeats. Writing on such subjects as the art of poetry, politics, and the occult, Yeats proves himself to be not only a master of verse and drama, but an immensely talented essayist and thorough scholar."What is 'Popular Poetry'?" reflects on a changing Irish literary landscape which has, over the course of Yeats' career, established its own place in world literature apart from, and perhaps surpassing, its English counterpart. Juxtaposing "the poetry of the coteries, which presupposes the written tradition" and "the true poetry of the people, which presupposes the unwritten tradition," Yeats argues that the spirit of Irish poetry depends on its unfaltering connection to the itinerant bards and storytellers whose gift for musicality and memory kept language alive for a widely illiterate people. In "Magic," Yeats, a longtime member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, discusses his belief in the occult. Musing on the power of symbol to evoke memories, as well as the revelation of his past lives, Yeats provides personal anecdotes and secondhand accounts of magical occurrences and experiences, exposing a world secrets and hidden meaning for believers and the uninitiated alike. "The Philosophy of Shelley's Poetry" is an academic essay in which Yeats argues that Shelley's poems far surpass the radical ideologies of such figures as William Godwin. Ideas of Good and Evil showcases the diverse intellectual and spiritual interests of W.B. Yeats, an icon of Irish literature and one of the twentieth century's leading poetic voices.With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of W.B. Yeats's Ideas of Good and Evil is a classic of Irish literature reimagined for modern readers.

The Celtic Twilight (1893) is a collection of stories written and edited by W.B. Yeats. Compiled at the height of the Celtic Twilight, a movement to revive the myths and traditions of Ancient Ireland, The Celtic Twilight captures a wide range of stories, songs, poems, and firsthand accounts from artists and storytellers dedicated to the preservation of Irish culture.In "Belief and Unbelief," a story is shared about a village at the foot of Ben Bulben. One day, a young girl disappears while walking through a local field. Fearful that the faeries have gotten her, the townspeople conduct a search of the village, checking every home while burning ragweed and reciting spells to ward off the mischievous spirits. "Mortal Help" discusses the interdependence of humans and faeries, who require the presence of the living in order to play games in the physical world. As evidence, an old ditch digger tells a story from his youth, when he witnessed a group of faeries playing the game of hurling not far from the field where he was working. In "A Knight of the Sheep," an old farmer faces off with the local tax collector, and both struggle to maintain respect for one another while trading shrewdly concealed insults. "The Devil" discusses several demonic sightings among Irish peasants, who claim to have met Lucifer by the side of the road by day and under the bed at night. The Celtic Twilight captures the collision of ancient and modern Ireland, preserving its legends while ensuring their mystery remains.With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of W.B. Yeats's The Celtic Twilight is a classic of Irish literature reimagined for modern readers.

Poems (1920) is a collection of poems and plays by W.B. Yeats. Containing many of the poet's early important works, Poems illuminates Yeats' influence on the Celtic Twilight, a late-nineteenth century movement to revive the myths and traditions of Ancient Ireland.The collection opens with Yeats' verse drama The Countess Cathleen, which he dedicated to the actress and revolutionary Maud Gonne. Set during a period of famine in Ireland, The Countess Cathleen tells the story of a wealthy landowning Countess who sells her soul to the devil in order to save her starving tenants. The Land of Heart's Desire, Yeats' first professionally performed play, follows a young fairy child who disrupts the lives of two newlyweds and shakes a simple village to its core. The Rose contains some of the writer's most beloved early poems, including "To the Rose Upon the Rood of Time"-a symbolist lyric alluding to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn-and "Fergus and the Druid," a dialogue in verse. In "Who Goes With Fergus," a poem blending ancient legend with modern Irish nationalism, Yeats asks the youth of his country to "brood on hopes and fears no more," to follow Fergus who "rules the shadows of the wood, / And the white breast of the dim sea / And all disheveled wandering stars." Yeats' writing, mysterious and rich with symbolism, demonstrates not just a mastery of the English language, but an abiding faith in the cause and principles of Irish independence.With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of W.B. Yeats's Poems is a classic of Irish literature reimagined for modern readers.

Ideas of Good and Evil (1903) is a collection of wide-ranging essays by Irish poet W.B. Yeats. Writing on such subjects as the art of poetry, politics, and the occult, Yeats proves himself to be not only a master of verse and drama, but an immensely talented essayist and thorough scholar."What is 'Popular Poetry'?" reflects on a changing Irish literary landscape which has, over the course of Yeats' career, established its own place in world literature apart from, and perhaps surpassing, its English counterpart. Juxtaposing "the poetry of the coteries, which presupposes the written tradition" and "the true poetry of the people, which presupposes the unwritten tradition," Yeats argues that the spirit of Irish poetry depends on its unfaltering connection to the itinerant bards and storytellers whose gift for musicality and memory kept language alive for a widely illiterate people. In "Magic," Yeats, a longtime member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, discusses his belief in the occult. Musing on the power of symbol to evoke memories, as well as the revelation of his past lives, Yeats provides personal anecdotes and secondhand accounts of magical occurrences and experiences, exposing a world secrets and hidden meaning for believers and the uninitiated alike. "The Philosophy of Shelley's Poetry" is an academic essay in which Yeats argues that Shelley's poems far surpass the radical ideologies of such figures as William Godwin. Ideas of Good and Evil showcases the diverse intellectual and spiritual interests of W.B. Yeats, an icon of Irish literature and one of the twentieth century's leading poetic voices.With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of W.B. Yeats's Ideas of Good and Evil is a classic of Irish literature reimagined for modern readers.

Poems (1920) is a collection of poems and plays by W.B. Yeats. Containing many of the poet¿s early important works, Poems illuminates Yeats¿ influence on the Celtic Twilight, a late-nineteenth century movement to revive the myths and traditions of Ancient Ireland.The collection opens with Yeats¿ verse drama The Countess Cathleen, which he dedicated to the actress and revolutionary Maud Gonne. Set during a period of famine in Ireland, The Countess Cathleen tells the story of a wealthy landowning Countess who sells her soul to the devil in order to save her starving tenants. The Land of Heart¿s Desire, Yeats¿ first professionally performed play, follows a young fairy child who disrupts the lives of two newlyweds and shakes a simple village to its core. The Rose contains some of the writer¿s most beloved early poems, including ¿To the Rose Upon the Rood of Time¿¿a symbolist lyric alluding to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn¿and ¿Fergus and the Druid,¿ a dialogue in verse. In ¿Who Goes With Fergus,¿ a poem blending ancient legend with modern Irish nationalism, Yeats asks the youth of his country to ¿brood on hopes and fears no more,¿ to follow Fergus who ¿rules the shadows of the wood, / And the white breast of the dim sea / And all disheveled wandering stars.¿ Yeats¿ writing, mysterious and rich with symbolism, demonstrates not just a mastery of the English language, but an abiding faith in the cause and principles of Irish independence.With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of W.B. Yeats¿s Poems is a classic of Irish literature reimagined for modern readers.

This brand new collection, impeccably edited by James Pethica, presents a comprehensive selection of Yeats's major contributions in poetry, drama, prose fiction, autobiography, and criticism.

The Wild Swans at Coole is the name of two collections of poetry by W. B. Yeats, published in 1917 and 1919. The Wild Swans at Coole, a collection of twenty-nine poems and the play At the Hawk's Well, was first published by the Cuala Press in November 1917. The title poem of the collection had first appeared in the Little Review in June of that year. Macmillan (London and New York) republished the poems in March 1919 without the play but with an additional seventeen poems. The completed volume, also called The Wild Swans at Coole, represents the "middle stage" of Yeats' writing and is concerned, amongst other themes, with Irish nationalism and the creation of an Irish aesthetic.

Since the dawn of language, poets have celebrated the majestic immensity of Earth’s oceans, the powerful waters that create and destroy, the intense drama and soothing gentleness of waves, the dangerous voyages to distant shores, and the indelible sensory memories set on shifting sandy beaches drenched in sunshine.<br><br>This collection joins the verse of renowned poets with the voices of select modern writers, all inspired by the ceaseless splendor of the sea.<br><br>Includes a reading guide for teachers and book groups, and biographies of the poets inside.<br><br><br>Classic <br><br>Dante Alighieri<br>Joseph Auslander<br>Thomas Lovell Beddoes<br>Elizabeth Barrett Browning<br>George Shepard Burleigh<br>Lord Byron<br>Bliss Carman<br>Stephen Crane<br>H. D.<br>Emily Dickinson<br>A. E.<br>Ralph Waldo Emerson<br>Charlotte Perkins Gilman<br>Arthur Guiterman<br>Thomas Hardy<br>Sadakichi Hartmann<br>Nathaniel Hawthorne<br>Rudyard Kipling<br>Thomas S. Jones, Jr.<br>D. H. Lawrence<br>Eugene Lee-Hamilton<br>Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<br>John Masefield<br>Edna St. Vincent Millay<br>Marianne Moore<br>Thomas Moore<br>John Boyle O’Reilly<br>Eva L. Ogden<br>Ezra Pound<br>Rainer Maria Rilke<br>Dante Gabriel Rossetti<br>Alan Seeger<br>William Shakespeare<br>John Sterling<br>Wallace Stevens<br>Robert Louis Stevenson<br>Sara Teasdale<br>Alfred, Lord Tennyson<br>Walt Whitman<br>Oscar Wilde<br>William Wordsworth<br>William Butler Yeats<br><br><br>Current<br><br>Joel Allegretti<br>Carol Alena Aronoff<br>Janet Barry<br>Sidney Bending<br>Ben Bever<br>Jenny Blackford<br>Eloise Bruce <br>R. T. Castleberry<br>Bill Cushing<br>Lauren Davis <br>Elizabeth Ruth Deyro<br>Agnieszka Filipek<br>Marj Hahne<br>David Holper<br>Gene Hult<br>Clarissa Jakobsons<br>Marjorie Maddox<br>Paul Magrs<br>Lucinda Marshall<br>Stephen McGuinness<br>Leah Mueller<br>Ciarán Parkes<br>Winston Plowes<br>Suzanne S. Rancourt<br>Meg Smith<br>Alec Solomita<br>Alison Stone<br>Larry D. Thacker <br>Lynne Viti<br>

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) war ein irischer Dichter. Er gilt als einer der bedeutendsten englischsprachigen Schriftsteller des 20. Jahrhunderts. 1923 erhielt er den Literaturnobelpreis. Yeats schrieb Prosa, Lyrik, Dramen und Essays. 1923 wurde ihm der Nobelpreis für Literatur verliehen "für seine stets von hoher Eingebung getragenen Dichtungen, die in vollendeter Gestalt das Wesen seines Volkes zum Ausdruck bringen." Seine Versdramen sind zunächst dem Stil Shakespeares verpflichtet, und seine frühe Lyrik wurde von Charles Baudelaire und Paul Verlaine beeinflusst. In romantischen Stimmungsbildern schilderte er die alten Kelten und ihre Mythen, wie er sie sah. Seine Werke dieser Zeit sind gekennzeichnet von verträumter Atmosphäre und irischer Folklore aus der Sammlung seiner Freundin und Vertrauten Lady Gregory. Inhalt: • Einleitung des Übersetzers • Die Gesetzestafeln • Die Anbetung der heiligen drei Könige • Der Glücklichste unter den Dichtern • Die Philosophie in den Dichtungen Shelleys • William Blake und die Phantasie • William Blake und seine Illustrationen zur Göttlichen Komödie • Das keltische Element in der Literatur • Zum Psalter sprechen • Der Leib des Vaters Christian Rosenkreuz

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Ireland is home to some of the world's most enchanting myths and tales. But many of these stories would have been lost if they hadn't been recorded and written down. Poet and Nobel laureate William Butler Yeats was one of these fortunate witnesses. In "The Celtic Twilight," originally published in 1893, he collected some of the most delightful myths and folktales of his native land.