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    Best-Loved Yeats
    Best-Loved Yeats
    Best-Loved Yeats
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    Best-Loved Yeats

    By W B Yeats and Mairéad Ashe FitzGerald

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    I have spread my dreams under your feet;

    Tread softly because you tread on my dreams …
    Some of the most famous lines in Irish poetry come from the pen of William Butler Yeats, poet, patriot, dramatist and senator. This illustrated collection of forty of his best-loved works, on Love, Politics, Old Age, Myth and Legend includes people, places and events that were important to him.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe O'Brien Press
    Release dateJan 8, 2013
    ISBN9781847174338
    Best-Loved Yeats
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    W B Yeats

    William Butler Yeats is widely regarded as one of the finest English language poets. His eclectic output frequently draws on his chief passions for the occult and the history of his homeland. The poetry, while often mystical and romantic, can also be gritty, realistic and frequently political. Yeats was also a major playwright and founded the Abbey Theatre, Ireland’s national theatre. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.

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      Best-Loved Yeats - W B Yeats

      BEST - LOVED

      YEATS

      SELECTED BY

      MAIRÉAD ASHE FITZGERALD

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

      Portrait of WB Yeats by John Singer Sargent, from Selected Poems by WB Yeats, MACMILLAN 1932

      The Enchanted Land, illustration by Emma Byrne

      The Lake Isle of Innisfree, courtesy of Reflexstock

      The Romantic Idealist, illustration by Emma Byrne

      Reeds, courtesy of Reflexstock

      Coole Parke and Thoor Ballylee, illustration by Emma Byrne

      The Woods at Coole Park, courtesy of Reflexstock

      War and Politics, illustration by Emma Byrne

      The execution yard at Kilmainham Gaol, courtesy of Reflexstock

      Old Age and Death, illustration by Emma Byrne

      Yeats’s grave, Drumcliffe Graveyard, Sligo, and

      Ben Bulben, courtesy of Reflexstock

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Title Page

      List of Illustrations

      WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS THE POET AND IRELAND

      The Enchanted Land

      The Stolen Child

      A Faery Song

      Lines from The Land of Heart’s Desire

      The Hosting of the Sidhe

      The Song of Wandering Aengus

      The Lake Isle of Innisfree

      The Fiddler of Dooney

      Red Hanrahan’s Song about Ireland

      The Romantic Idealist

      He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

      The Pity of Love

      The Sorrow of Love

      The White Birds

      Down by the Salley Gardens

      The Ragged Wood

      When You are Old

      No Second Troy

      The Lover Pleads with his Friend for Old Friends

      The Folly of Being Comforted

      Never Give all the Heart

      The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water

      O Do Not Love Too Long

      To a Child Dancing in the Wind

      Two Years Later

      Memory

      Coole Park and Thoor Ballylee

      The Wild Swans at Coole

      In the Seven Woods

      My House

      A Prayer on going in to my House

      A Cradle Song

      A Prayer for my Daughter

      To be Carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee

      War and Politics

      September 1913

      To a Shade

      An Irish Airman Foresees his Death

      Easter 1916

      Sixteen Dead Men

      The Rose Tree

      In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz

      Old Age and Death

      Sailing to Byzantium

      The Wheel

      Youth and Age

      What Then?

      From Under Ben Bulben (Cast a Cold Eye etc.)

      BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY

      DESIGNER’S NOTE

      INDEX OF FIRST LINES

      Copyright

      WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

      THE POET AND IRELAND

      William Butler Yeats was born in 1865, the son of John Butler Yeats, an artist whose forebears were Protestant churchmen in Sligo, and Susan Pollexfen who belonged to a Sligo merchant family. The Yeats family was to make a unique contribution to the cultural and artistic life of twentieth century Ireland: William Butler Yeats became the greatest poet writing in English in the twentieth century; his brother, Jack Yeats was one of the most gifted Irish painters of modern times; his sisters, Elizabeth and Susan, devoted their lives to artistic endeavours and were the founders of The Cuala Press.

      THE ENCHANTED LAND

      William Butler Yeats’s relationship with his native county was one of the main influences in shaping his future as a great poet. For the young emerging poet, Sligo was a place of enchantment. While his

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