The Wild Swans at Coole |
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| Author:
| Yeats, William |
| Series title: | Classic Poetry Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-5197-1498-5 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2015 |
| Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $5.25 |
Book Description:
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"William Butler Yeats has done more for English poetry than any other Irishman, for he is the greatest poet in the English language that Ireland has ever produced." - THE ADVANCE OF ENGLISH POETRY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, by William Lyon PhelpsWilliam Butler Yeats was Ireland's leading literary figure of the early twentieth century and was, for that matter, one of the leading writers of English literature. He was the first from Ireland to be awarded, in 1923, the Nobel Prize for...
More Description"William Butler Yeats has done more for English poetry than any other Irishman, for he is the greatest poet in the English language that Ireland has ever produced." - THE ADVANCE OF ENGLISH POETRY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, by William Lyon PhelpsWilliam Butler Yeats was Ireland's leading literary figure of the early twentieth century and was, for that matter, one of the leading writers of English literature. He was the first from Ireland to be awarded, in 1923, the Nobel Prize for Literature. Though a prolific writer of drama and the essay as well, it is his poetry for which he is most celebrated today. This collection, published in 1919, reveals the poet's mastery of the mystical, the haunting, and the amusing. His lines are also intensely personal. Some you will want to read aloud. Others you will want to keep to yourself-almost as a secret between you and the poet.