Few have lived their ideas so passinately and nobly as W.B.Yeats in his love affairs, politics and poetry
From his youth in the 1880s, a fertile dreamer rediscovering and remaking in the Irish tradition and resisting the temptations of
Victorianism, he grew into a great an innovative poet of the twentieth century, yet, unlike Pound or Eliot, he deliberately
remained a Romantic. Much of his most vigorous verse on love, sex, Irish an international politics, the complexities of the
occult and the 'sedentary toil' of poetry was produced in the years between his fiftieth birthday in 1915 and his death in 1939.
This new selection includes the final book from the unfairly neglected narrative poem 'The Wanderings of Oisin' and a number
of lyrics from Yeats's work as poetic dramatist, together wirth other short pieces which have not achieved canonical status.
It breaks new ground by allowing the reader to engage with a dozen poems in alternative versions; in many other cases it
provides significant variants, so that Yeats's struggle to revise his poetry and to 'remake' himself can be experienced with
ununsual immediacy.
Serie / Reihe: The penguin poetry library
Personen: Yeats, W. B.
Leseror. Aufstellung: Englisch → Lyrik
Yeats, W. B.:
Selected poetry / edited with an introduction and notes by Timothy Webb. - London : Penguin Books, 1991. - 318 S. ; 19 cm. - (The penguin poetry library)
ISBN 978-0-14-058645-9 (kart.) : £ 3.99
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