Download or read book A Book of Irish Verse Selected from Modern Writers with an Introduction and Notes by William Butler Yeats written by William Butler Yeats and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I HAVE not found it possible to revise this book as completely as I should have wished. I have corrected a bad mistake of a copyist, and added a few pages of new verses towards the end, and softened some phrases in the introduction which seemed a little petulant in form, and written in a few more to describe writers who have appeared during the last four years, and that is about all. I compiled it towards the end of a long indignant argument, carried on in the committee rooms of our literary societies, and in certain newspapers between a few writers of our new movement, who judged Irish literature by literary standards, and a number of people, a few of whom were writers, who judged it by its patriotism and by its political effect; and I hope my opinions may have value as part of an argument which may awaken again. The Young Ireland writers wrote to give the peasantry a literature in English in place of the literature they were losing with Gaelic, and these methods, which have shaped the literary thought of Ireland to our time, could not be the same as the methods of a movement which, so far as it is more than an instinctive expression of certain moods of the soul, endeavours to create a reading class among the more leisured classes, which will preoccupy itself with Ireland and the needs of Ireland. The peasants in eastern counties have their Young Ireland poetry, which is always good teaching and sometimes good poetry, and the peasants of the western counties have beautiful poems and stories in Gaelic, while our more leisured classes read little about any country, and nothing about Ireland. We cannot move these classes from an apathy, come from their separation from the land they live in, by writing about politics or about Gaelic, but we may move them by becoming men of letters and expressing primary emotions and truths in ways appropriate to this country. One carries on the traditions of Thomas Davis, towards whom our eyes must always turn, not less than the traditions of good literature, which are the morality of the man of letters, when one is content, like A.E. with fewer readers that one may follow a more hidden beauty; or when one endeavours, as I have endeavoured in this book, to separate what has literary value from what has only a patriotic and political value, no matter how sacred it has become to us.
Download or read book A Book of Irish Verse written by Various and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of modern Irish verse has been expertly selected and edited by the celebrated poet William Butler Yeats. Ranging from classic writers such as Oliver Goldsmith to contemporary poets such as Katharine Tynan Hinkson, this collection is a testament to the richness and diversity of Irish poetry. Yeats provides insightful notes to each poem, illuminating their significance and context. From romantic ballads to political laments, this book is a treasure trove of the finest Irish poetry. Here's an excerpt from one of the poems featured here, 'Mairgréad Ni Chealleadh' by Edward Walsh: "At the dance in the village thy white foot was fleetest / Thy voice in the concert of maidens was sweetest / The swell of thy white breast made rich lovers follow / And thy raven hair bound them, young Mairgréad ni Chealleadh."
Download or read book The Collected Works of W B Yeats Vol VI Prefaces and Introductions written by William Butler Yeats and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prefaces and Introductions, Volume VI of The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, brings together for the first time thirty-two introductions by Yeats to the works of such literary greats as William Blake, J.M. Synge, Lady Gregory, Oscar Wilde, Oliver St. John Gogarty, Lionel Johnson, and Rabindranath Tagore. The introductions, which span the Nobel laureate’s entire career, reflect the broad reach of Yeats’s literary and cultural interests. Always insightful and often charming, Prefaces and Introductions reveals the breadth of Yeats’s talent as essayist, critic, folklorist, and raconteur.
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Download or read book Prefaces and Introductions written by W.B. Yeats and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-10-02 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in The Collected Edition of the Works of W.B.Yeats brings together for the first time thirty-two introductions written for anthologies that he edited or for books by other writers. The introductions span the full length of his career. Their topics range from Irish legends and folklore to the design of graceful new Irish coins. The authors he discusses include William Blake, J.M.Synge, Lady Gregory, Oscar Wilde, Oliver St John Gogarty, Lionel Johnson and Rabindranath Tagore. Full explanatory notes and an index give the reader easy access to the volume's diverse array of topics. The text is reliable and accurate.
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