William Yeats: 109 books

This early (1903) volume of essays, some written in an allusive style, includes “What is ‘Popular Poetry’?”, “Speaking to the Psaltery,” “Magic,” “The Happiest of the Poets,” “The Philosophy of Shelley’s Poetry at Stratford-on-Avon,” “William Blake and the Imagination,”...

International folkloristics is a worldwide discipline in which scholars study various forms of folklore ranging from myth, folktale, and legend to custom and belief. Twenty classic essays, beginning with a piece by Jacob Grimm, reveal the evolving theoretical underpinnings of folkloristics from its...

Upon the brimming water among the stones

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...

I have heard the pigeons of the Seven Woods  Make their faint thunder, and the garden bees  Hum in the lime tree flowers; and put away  The unavailing outcries and the old bitterness  That empty the heart. I have forgot awhile  Tara uprooted, and new commonness  Upon...

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Many of the tales in this book were told me by one Paddy Flynn, a little bright-eyed old man, who lived in a leaky and one-roomed cabin in the village of Ballisodare, which is, he was wont to say, "the most gentle"—whereby he meant faery—"place in the whole of County Sligo." Others hold it, however,...

This book could be called "visionary", it belongs to Ireland and the Irish - nationality, that still keep their Celtic foundations, among many smaller gifts of the past - the gift of visions , extinct among the more hurried and more successful nations; sparkling chandeliers does not prevent...

I have found in an old diary a quotation from Stephane Mallarm saying that his epoch was troubled by the trembling of the veil of the Temple. As those words were still true, during the years of my life described in this book, I have chosen The Trembling of the Veil for its title.

"...My dear A.E. I dedicate this book to you because, whether you think it well or ill written, you will sympathize with the sorrows and the ecstasies of its personages, perhaps even more than I do myself. Although I wrote these stories at different times and in different manners, and without...

Will you permit me, Aherne,' I said, 'to ask you a question, which I have wanted to ask you for years, and have not asked because we have grown nearly strangers? Why did you refuse the berretta, and almost at the last moment? When you and I lived together, you cared neither for wine, women, nor money,...