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Later Poems Kindle Edition

by William Butler Yeats (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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"This book contains all poetry not in dramatic form that I have written between my seven-and-twentieth year and the year 1921. I have included one long poem in dramatic form, of which a much shortened version, intended for stage representation, is in my book of plays. I have left out nearly all the long notes which seemed necessary before the work of various writers, but especially of my friend Lady Gregory, had made the circumstantial origins of my verse, in ancient legend or in the legends of the country side, familiar to readers of poetry.

THOOR BALLYLEE,
May 1922."

William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and others.
William Butler Yeats is widely considered to be one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. 
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B082PC8DD3
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ E-BOOKARAMA (August 10, 2023)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 10, 2023
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1596 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 197 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1534653562
  • Customer Reviews:
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W. B. Yeats

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William Butler Yeats (/ˈjeɪts/; 13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish Senator for two terms. Yeats was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and, along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn, and others, founded the Abbey Theatre, where he served as its chief during its early years. In 1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Irishman so honoured for what the Nobel Committee described as "inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation." Yeats is generally considered one of the few writers who completed their greatest works after being awarded the Nobel Prize; such works include The Tower (1928) and The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1929).

William Butler Yeats was born in Sandymount, Ireland and educated there and in London; he spent his childhood holidays in County Sligo. He studied poetry in his youth and from an early age was fascinated by both Irish legends and the occult. Those topics feature in the first phase of his work, which lasted roughly until the turn of the 20th century. His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889, and its slow-paced and lyrical poems display Yeats's debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the poets of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. From 1900, Yeats's poetry grew more physical and realistic. He largely renounced the transcendental beliefs of his youth, though he remained preoccupied with physical and spiritual masks, as well as with cyclical theories of life.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Not the "later poems."
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The two stars do not reflect the quality of the poetry. Some of the poems in this volume are among Yeats's greatest, including the last dated one, "A Prayer for My Daughter," written in 1919. But that date brings me to my complaint. The title of this volume is bogus. These are not Yeats's "Later Poems." Yeats wrote in at least four separate styles, and these poems represent a transition from the plain language of his second style to the rich, ornate imagery of his third style. And after that came Yeats's final poems, which included "Lapis Lazuli," again in a plain style. "Lapis Lazuli" was written in 1939, the year of Yeats's death, twenty years after "A Prayer for My Daughter." Anyone who bought this volume believing these were really Yeats's "later poems" -- as I did -- is the victim of mislabeling.
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