The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

All of the songs that W. B. Yeats approved for inclusion in his standard canon are included in his Collected Poems. It is so wide-ranging that it spans the entirety of his career from brilliant retellings of ancient Irish myths and legends to passionate reflections on the challenges and rewards of youth and old age from exquisite occasionally whimsical songs of love nature and art to somber and enraged poems about life in a country torn apart by war and uprising. We can follow the quest of this century's best poet to combine intelligence and artistry in a single magnificent vision by watching the development of rich and recurring images and themes throughout his body of work.