William Butler Yeats

One of the Emerald Isle’s most glorious poets, the late William Butler Yeats (b. 1865) began his life in Sandymount, Ireland. This County Dublin native grew up in a time dominated by religious and political change, and his character was shaped by the events that swirled around him as a child. Yeats parents were prominent descendants of the Protestant Ascendancy movement, whose message and legacy was gradually being diluted by new leadership and a changing Ireland. The renewed popularity...Read Full Story

The Collected Works of William Butler Yeats (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics) William Butler Yeats (Author) (1) Download: $1.99 190 used & new from $1.93 (Visit the Best Sellers in Performing Arts list for authoritative information on this product's current rank.) Review & Description This Halcyon Classics collection contains dozens of works by William Butler Yeats, one of the foremost figures of 20th-Century English-language poetry, drama, and literature. Yeats (1865-1939) is best...Read Full Story

The Collected Works of William Butler Yeats (Unexpurgated Edition) (Halcyon Classics) William Butler Yeats (Author) (1) Download: $1.99 190 used & new from $1.93 (Visit the Best Sellers in Irish list for authoritative information on this product's current rank.) Review & Description This Halcyon Classics collection contains dozens of works by William Butler Yeats, one of the foremost figures of 20th-Century English-language poetry, drama, and literature. Yeats (1865-1939) is best known for...Read Full Story

William Butler Yeats was an ardent Theosophist.  He and Ezra Pound once shared both Theosophical Society interests and living quarters.  However, he did write an unforgettable poem as he was looking at WW I that certainly comes to mind now.  Watching the very terrible onrushing events of the so-called "Arab Spring," (i.e. NEW AGE REVOLUTION -- MIDDLE EAST THEATER), one cannot help but remember the Yeats poem and wonder if this is the time.  Certainly, all too often, "the best lack all...Read Full Story

  WHEN YOU ARE OLD by: William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) HEN you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face; And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled...Read Full Story

The Celtic Twilight Review When Robert Frost (A not very likable fellow, when you read his biographies, despite his excellent poetry.) visited Yeats in Ireland, he made a comment to the effect that, "It's no wonder he believes in faeries." He was responding to the beautiful, mystical Irish landscape Yeats grew up in. This book, even though you're (probably) not in Ireland when you read it, will have you responding much as Frost did. The peasantry have so much of their pagan ancestry in...Read Full Story

Where dips the rocky highland Of Sleuth Wood in the lake, There lies a leafy island Where flapping herons wake The drowsy water rats; There we've hid our faery vats, Full of berrys And of reddest stolen cherries. Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving olden dances...Read Full Story

Author : W B Yeats Total Page : 180 Publisher : Wildside Press Publication Date : 2004 09 01 The Celtic Twilight >> Inspired Prose I had heard of William Butler Yeats and I must say he is quite an excellent poet The dreams I had of the old worlds came to life in this >> An Excellent Guide to Understanding Yeats Early Poetry When Robert Frost A not very likable fellow when you read his biographies despite his excellent poetry visited Yeats in Ireland he made a comment to the effect that It s...Read Full Story

When You are Old by William Butler Yeats When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face; And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled And paced upon...Read Full Story

The Land of Heart’s Desire William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and prose writer. One of the greatest English-language poets of the 20th century, Yeats received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. ‘The Land of Heart’s Desire’ (1894) remains one of his most famous dramas. This edition also includes a short selection of thematically relevant poetry by Yeats, including ‘The Stolen Child,’ ‘The Hosting of the Sidhe,’ and more. Rating: (out of reviews...Read Full Story