Yeats moved from Celtic myth and lyric romance towards the spare, hard-edged poems of his later years, and this selection follows that arc across a hundred pieces.
The collection draws on the work that placed him at the centre of modern poetry in English: Irish legend and folklore, the political poems written in the shadow of 1916, meditations on ageing, and the symbolic verse of his final decades. Reading the poems in sequence makes the change in his style visible, from the musical early lines to the plain, declarative voice of the end. Each poem stands alone, which suits study and occasional reading equally.
Selected features:
• A hundred poems spanning the early lyrics and the harder later work
• Irish myth, folklore and landscape as recurring material
• Poems shaped by Irish politics and by the poet's own advancing age
• A single-volume selection for readers who want the range without the complete works
For poetry readers, literature students and anyone starting with Yeats, available from Boipoka.
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