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W.B. Yeats: Poems (Highbridge Classics)

1 review
William Butler Yeats

Highbridge Audio, 2006

A Good Selection, Competently Done
This is a single cassette in one of those tall boxes that could hold two. The notes are sparse - just a listing of the poems and a capsule bio of Mr. McKenna. The package also claims 80 minutes worth of poetry, but the timings printed on the tape itself for each side (35:29 for side A, 34:04 for B) leave us more than 10 minutes shy of that. I myself have not done the requisite timing, but tend to ...

W.B. Yeats: Selected Poems

2 reviews
Yeats, William Butler

Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc., 2008

The cheapest way to obtain Yeats' best poems in hardcover!
This book is for the classic Yeats reader who wants a greatest hits book, without the exhausting detail of the author's every waking moment. Expertly categorized, his great poems are woven into this book, with excellent type and font that is very readable. The cover is also elegantly designed (you can see it online).

A Treasury of Irish Myth, Legend, and Folklore (A Treasury of Irish Myth, Legend, and Folklore and Cuchulain ...

1 review
William Butler Yeats

Avenel Books, 1986

Great collection of stories
In the first section of this book (Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry), Yeats gathered a large number of stories (about 65) on a variety of supernatural subjects. I found some a little perplexing, but most were enjoyable. The second part of this book is Lady Gregory's Cuchulain of Muirthemne. Being unfamiliar with the legend of Cuchulain, I am unable to compare this version with ...

Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

7 reviews
William Butler Yeats

Alexandrian Archives, Inc., 2008

A fascinating look at the tradition of folklore in Ireland.
In this delightful volume, first published in 1892, William Butler Yeats has collected all manner of Irish folklore (mostly short stories, with a few poems) from a wide variety sources. He has divided the works into categories as follows: the "Trooping Fairies" (fairies, changelings, and the "merrow" or mermaids); the "Solitary Fairies" (the lepracaun, the pooka - an animal spirit, and the ...

Yeats's Poetry, Drama, and Prose (Norton Critical Editions)

2 reviews
William Butler Yeats

W. W. Norton, 2000

Another fine edition of the works of a great poet
There are by this time many collections of the works of Yeats, and this is one of the good ones. Aside from containing the major plays and poems it has critical essays by contemporaries of Yeats and important critical voices of our own time, such as Helen Vendler, Harold Bloom, and the poet Seamus Heaney. As for the work itself, however historically important the plays, and however of curiosity ...

A Poet to His Beloved: The Early Love Poems of William Butler Yeats

1 review
William Butler Yeats

St. Martin's Press, 2007

A dark and brooding kind of love
I purchased this slim little hardcover volume as a romantic gift on St. Valentine's day. Its attractive Victorian styled jacket, and artificially yellowed pages, along with the eye-catching, if poorly reproduced, artwork scattered throughout, seemed just the thing to set my love's literary heart on fire. I should, perhaps, have read the very brief introduction prior to purchase. Yeats seems ...

The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

20 reviews
William Butler Yeats

Scribner, 1996

Great poet, great work, amazing compilation!
A great compilation of Yeats works, while other compilations have excellent notes and essays regarding his works this one has many of his poems (and series of poems) all in one book. An outstanding book to own, beautifully compiled in this soft cover book (which has surprisingly held up quite well against years of battering as I carry it with me from time to time).

Selected Poems And Four Plays

4 reviews
William Butler Yeats

Scribner, 1996

Poems Not To Be Read, But Learned By Heart
In 250 years the mass of pablum we currently pass as literature will be blown away like chaff in the wind. One of the hard and nourishing kernals left on the threshingroom floor will certainly be Yeats. These are poems not to be read, but learned by heart. Among my favorites from this collection (with years of composition) are: "The Stolen Child", "To an Isle in the Water" and "Down by the Salley ...

Great Irish Short Stories (Dover Thrift Editions)

1 review
Maria Edgeworth, William Carleton, ...

Dover Publications, 2005

Synopsis
"This collection of thirteen captivating tales by Irish authors illustrates both traditional and modern approaches to the Celtic art of storytelling. Spanning two centuries, it features stories by Maria Edgeworth and William Carleton from the beginning of Irish prose fiction in English; retellings of traditional tales by Lady Gregory and Standish O'Grady from the great age of the Irish Literary ...

The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume XIII: A Vision: The Original 1925 Version (Collected Works of W B ...
William Butler Yeats

Scribner, 2008

The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume XIII: A Vision is part of a fourteen-volume series under the general editorship of eminent Yeats scholar George Bornstein and formerly the late Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper. One of the strangest works of literary modernism, A Vision is Yeats's greatest occult work. Edited by Yeats scholars Catherine E. Paul and Margaret Mills Harper, the volume presents the "system" of philosophy, ...

Gitanjali: A Collection of Indian Poems by the Nobel Laureate

30 reviews
Rabindranath Tagore

Scribner, 1997

Gitanjali
Simply one of the best books I have ever read. Very moving, and more importantly gives you a real perspective on life.

The Yeats Reader: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Prose

3 reviews
William Butler Yeats

Scribner, 2002

A marvellous compendium and overview
I first fell in love with Yeats poetry (specifically "The Song Of Wandering Aengus" before discovering the rest of his poetry) then discovered his plays and prose. I was particularly taken with his version of some classis Irish fairy tales. This volume, with over a hundred of his poems, eight plays, around a dozen excerpts of autobiographical writing, a similar number of critical writings and ...

Mythologies
William Butler Yeats

Collier Books, 1974

"Stories of the Supernatural, based on Irish country folklore, from one of the greatest poets of our age"

The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats: Consisting of Reveries over Childhood and Youth, The Trembling of ...

1 review
William Butler Yeats

Collier MacMillan (A Collier Book), 1965

An unforgettable portrait of Yeats - the man, and the poet
So, why should you read this book? (Especially if it's not assigned reading in your college class.) Because it's a fascinating read, recording (among many other things) Yeats' relationships with contemporaries Oscar Wilde, John Synge, Madame Blavatsky, George Moore, and others. It also lends a great insight into his passions for cabalistic thoughts, occultism, the Irish theatre, politics ...

William Butler Yeats - The Hour-glass, & The Land of Heart's Desire

Omnibus Select, 2008

Two plays collected in one edition formatted for the Kindle. WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS [1865-1939] was an Irish writer appreciated primarily as a poet and playwright. He was a key writer during the Irish Literary Revival. He co-founded the Abbey Theatre with Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn. He was also an Irish Senator. In 1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The Celtic Twilight

1 review

Neeland Media LLC, 2004

Faerie Folklore of a Shadowy Ireland of Celtic Mysteries !
In Celtic Twilight, originally published in 1902, Yeats recites several accounts of encounters with the faerie folk and with the people of Ireland of the time which gives us insight into Irish folklore, myth and legend. Yeats associates poetry with religious ideas and sentiment. And, I believe that he saw himself as writing for Ireland, but a shadowy Ireland of Celtic mysteries and legends, ...

The Classic Noh Theatre of Japan (New Directions Paperbook)

New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1979

Fifteen of the most celebrated plays of the Noh theatre repertory are given here in their entirety and five more are presented in synopsis. The translations are grounded in a critical discussion of the Noh theatre, its history and place in the court life of Japan, a description of the stage on which it is performed, its music, costumes, and masks, and the dance which is usually the high point of the performance. Both Pound and Fenollosa discuss ...

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