William Butler Yeats: 99 books

The first edition of W. B. Yeats's The Tower appeared in bookstores in London on Valentine's Day, 1928. His English publisher printed just 2,000 copies of this slender volume of twenty-one poems, priced at six shillings. The book was immediately embraced by book buyers and critics alike, and it quickly...

In questo interessante libro pubblicato da W.B.Yeats nel 1888 sono raccolte i racconti e le fiabe della tradizione irlandese. Le storie già rielaborate da illustri personaggi come Crocker e Lady Wilde, per citarne due tra i tanti, sono state organizzate e commentate da Yeats stesso che ha inserito...

This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • Poems of W. B. Yeats • Ideas of Good and Evil by • The Celtic Twilight • The Wind Among the Reeds • The...

From A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers—featuring cover art by Jessica Hische It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated...

For those who are familiar with Yeats' poetry, particulary his beloved early poems like "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," reading "Rosa Alchemica" is an experience of joy. Called by critics his best work of fiction, "Rosa Alchemica" incorporates not only the lush language...

Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at each calendar month through the eyes and minds of our most...

Compiling nineteen essays and introductions, a volume with explanatory notes includes Per Amica Silentia Lunaeand On the Boiler as well as introductions on Shelley and Balzac and essays on Irish poetry and politics.

W.B. Yeats es, junto a Ezra Pound y T.S. Eliot, el gran renovador de la poesía europea del siglo XX. W.B. Yeats es, junto a Ezra Pound y T.S. Eliot, el gran renovador de la poesía europea del siglo XX. Nacido en Irlanda, su obra está transida de la mitología céltica, los ritmos del modernismo...

Hanrahan è un maestro girovago: con un calamaio legato al collo da una catenella, il libro di Virgilio e l’abbecedario, si muove tra i villaggi della regione del Kiltartan, in Irlanda. Canta canzoni che lui stesso compone dopo averle sentite dal piviere della montagna o dal vento che spazza la...

This holiday, we are offering to you our own Christmas box - filled up to the top with the best Christmas novels, classics to read during holidays, magical Christmas tales, legends, most famous carols and the unique poetry of the giants of literature dedicated to this one and only holiday: The Gift...

"A terrible beauty is born," observed the greatest modern Irish poet after his country's 1916 Easter Rebellion against the British. This streak of proud nationalism, interwoven with elements of Celtic lore and mysticism, and infused with a hard-earned wisdom, makes Yeats's works resonate...

John Sherman and Dhoya, novella and story, are among the earliest of W.B. Yeats's published compositions, begun at his father's prompting when the young poet was living in London in 1888. John Sherman is a poignant and delightful narrative that dramatizes the predicament of a young man in love, troubled...

Yeats assembled this volume in 1922, the year before he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. His selected work here includes poems from The Wind among the Reeds, The Old Age of Queen Maeve, Baile and Aillinn, In the Seven Woods, The Shadowy Waters, The Green Helmet, Responsibilities, The Wild Swans at Coole, and Michael Robartes and the Dancer.

Yeats combined his idiosyncratic symbolism with echoes of Japan’s noh drama, attempting to create a new kind of theater. This 1921 collection comprises 1919’s celebrated Two Plays for Dancers (The Only Jealousy of Emer and The Dreaming of the Bones) as well as At the Hawk’s Well and Calvary.