The Collected Poetry of William Butler Yeats
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Experience the lyrical brilliance and profound insights of one of Ireland's greatest poets with "The Collected Poetry of William Butler Yeats." This comprehensive anthology gathers Yeats' poetic works, spanning a prolific career that embraced the Celtic Revival, symbolism, and modernist influences.
From the enchanting verses of his early collections to…
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William Butler Yeats was a truly great poet who lived during revolutionary times in Ireland. I am recommending his poetry collection because his poems reflect the revolutionary times he lived in, but also because Yeats himself lived a revolutionary life of change. One of the things I most admire about Yeats is that his poetry continues to change right until the end of his life. He was never satisfied with his own work, and he always looked coldly and critically at himself. His epitaph is, “Cast a cold eye on life, on death. Horseman, pass by.”
In his poem ‘The…
From Fathali's list on why revolutions fail.
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