Download or read book A William Butler Yeats Encyclopedia written by Sam McCready and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was not only a major Irish poet, but also a playwright, theatre founder, politician and literary critic. In his early life, he immersed himself in Irish folk stories and mythology, which he would later weave so skilfully into his major poems and plays. He devoted himself to occult studies and philosophy, and he found dignity and significance in the land, people and history of his native Ireland. He was largely responsible for the Irish literary renaissance, for he encouraged his contemporaries to turn to the Irish past for their literary material. His works have generated volumes of critical commentary, and interest in his tremendous cultural contribution continues to grow. This reference book is a comprehensive guide to his life and work, and to the large body of scholarship that has been written about him.
Download or read book William Butler Yeats Encyclopedia Entry written by and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Fortier, Professor at the University of Guelph in Canada, introduces poet, playwright and Nobel Prize winner for Literature, William Butler Yeats. Fortier provides an overview of Yeats¿́¿ history, aims and practice, detailing how his work was influenced by political issues, and emphasises the importance of his role in the development of Irish Theatre.
Download or read book The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats written by William Butler Yeats and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Under the Moon written by William Butler Yeats and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While working on a facsimile edition and transcription of W. B. Yeats's surviving early manuscripts, renowned Yeats scholar George Bornstein made a thrilling literary discovery: thirty-eight unpublished poems written between the poet's late teens and late twenties. These works span the crucial years during which the poet "remade himself from the unknown and insecure young student Willie Yeats to the more public literary, cultural, and even political figure W. B. Yeats whom we know today." "Here is a poetry marked by a rich, exuberant, awk-ward, soaring sense of potential, bracingly youthful in its promise and its clumsiness, in its moments of startling beauty and irrepressible excess," says Brendan Kennelly. And the Yeats in these pages is already experimenting with those themes with which his readers will become intimate: his stake in Irish nationalism; his profound love for Maud Gonne; his intense fascination with the esoteric and the spiritual. With Bornstein's help, one can trace Yeats's process of self-discovery through constant revision and personal reassessment, as he develops from the innocent and derivative lyricist of the early 1880s to the passionate and original poet/philosopher of the 1890s. Reading-texts of over two dozen of these poems appear here for the first time, together with those previously available only in specialized literary journals or monographs. Bornstein has assembled all thirty-eight under the title Yeats had once planned to give his first volume of collected poems. Under the Moon is essential reading for anyone interested in modern poetry.
Download or read book Early Poems written by William Butler Yeats and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-04 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich selection of 134 poems published between 1889 and 1914: "Lake Isle of Innisfree," "When You Are Old," "Down by the Salley Gardens," many more. Note. Alphabetical lists of titles and first lines.
Download or read book Critical Companion to William Butler Yeats written by David A. Ross and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the life and writings of William Butler Yeats, including a biographical sketch, detailed synopses of his works, social and historical influences, and more.
Download or read book Yeats the Man and the Masks written by Richard Ellmann and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Two Plays for Dancers written by William Butler Yeats and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Dreaming of the Bones" was first published in 1919 and performed in 1931, it was one of the plays that comprised Yeats' "Four Plays for Dancers." Written in the Japanese Noh tradition, performed with masks, the play reflects on a belief that the dead may dream back.
Download or read book A Poet to His Beloved written by William Butler Yeats and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1985-11-15 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of forty-one early love poems by William Butler Yeates.
Download or read book Best Loved Yeats written by W. B. Yeats and published by The O'Brien Press. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Wild Swans at Coole written by William Butler Yeats and published by Litres. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Selected Poems and Three Plays of William Butler Yeats written by William Butler Yeats and published by Scribner Paper Fiction. This book was released on 1986 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revised and expanded edition of the classic volume of Yeats' work, including the play The Death of Cuchulain.
Download or read book William Butler Yeats 1865 1939 written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). Contains a bibliography of reference material and a photograph of Yeats. Includes a biography written by Eamon Grennan for the "Academic American Encyclopedia." Links to other Web sites related to Yeats.
Download or read book Collected Plays written by William Butler Yeats and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Responsibilities written by William Butler Yeats and published by Shannon : Irish University Press. This book was released on 1914 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mythologies written by Roland Barthes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This new edition of MYTHOLOGIES is the first complete, authoritative English version of the French classic, Roland Barthes's most emblematic work"--
Download or read book The Celtic Twilight written by William Butler Yeats and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the tales in this book were told me by one Paddy Flynn, a little bright-eyed old man, who lived in a leaky and one-roomed cabin in the village of Ballisodare, which is, he was wont to say, "the most gentle"Ñwhereby he meant faeryÑ"place in the whole of County Sligo." Others hold it, however, but second to Drumcliff and Drumahair. The first time I saw him he was cooking mushrooms for himself; the next time he was asleep under a hedge, smiling in his sleep. He was indeed always cheerful, though I thought I could see in his eyes (swift as the eyes of a rabbit, when they peered out of their wrinkled holes) a melancholy which was well-nigh a portion of their joy; the visionary melancholy of purely instinctive natures and of all animals. And yet there was much in his life to depress him, for in the triple solitude of age, eccentricity, and deafness, he went about much pestered by children. It was for this very reason perhaps that he ever recommended mirth and hopefulness. He was fond, for instance, of telling how Collumcille cheered up his mother. "How are you to-day, mother?" said the saint. "Worse," replied the mother. "May you be worse to-morrow," said the saint. The next day Collumcille came again, and exactly the same conversation took place, but the third day the mother said, "Better, thank God." And the saint replied, "May you be better to-morrow." He was fond too of telling how the Judge smiles at the last day alike when he rewards the good and condemns the lost to unceasing flames. He had many strange sights to keep him cheerful or to make him sad. I asked him had he ever seen the faeries, and got the reply, "Am I not annoyed with them?" I asked too if he had ever seen the banshee. "I have seen it," he said, "down there by the water, batting the river with its hands."
