Book description
As well as being one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is the greatest lyric poet that Ireland has produced. He was the acknowledged leader of the Irish Literary Renaissance, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.
The early lyrical poetry is much anthologized and includes When You Are Old, The Cloths of Heaven and The Lake Isle of Inisfree, but, unusually for a poet, Yeats’s later work surpasses the poems of his youth. This volume contains all the poetry from the 1933 edition of the Collected Poems, the last anthology to be published in the poet’s lifetime.
