Poems of W.B. Yeats

<p>Deeply involved with Irish culture and history, W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) is one of the greatest poets writing in the last two centuries. This sourcebook provides essential help for readers who wish to learn more about his powerful, haunting poems.<br> Considering Yeats's early, dreamily evocative poems as well as his passionate, tension-ridden later work, Michael O'Neill offers a refreshingly clear discussion of:<br> *<em>contexts</em> - through an invaluable, accessible overview, a detailed chronology and contemporary documents revealing Yeats's understanding of his vocation as a poet;<br> *<em>interpretations</em> - through helpfully introduced extracts from criticism of Yeats's work, ranging from early responses through to modern critical texts;<br> *<em>key poems</em> - in a section where insightful commentary accompanies the full annotated text of many of Yeats's major poems;<br> *<em>further reading</em> - to guide those interested in additional study.<br> This sourcebook is ideal for those new to Yeats's poetry or those who wish to look deeper into its workings, its reception and the contexts from which it emerged.</p> <p><strong>Includes full texts and commentary on the following poems: </strong><em>The Song of the Happy Shepherd</em>; <em>The Lake Isle of Innisfree</em>; <em>The Sorrow of Love</em>; <em>When You Are Old</em>; <em>Who Goes with Fergus?</em>; <em>To Ireland in the Coming Times</em>; <em>The Hosting of the Sidhe</em>; <em>The Moods</em>; <em>The Lover Tells of the Rose in His Heart</em>; <em>The Song of Wandering Aengus</em>; <em>The Lover Mourns for the Loss of Love</em>; <em>A Poet to His Beloved</em>; <em>To His Heart; Bidding It Have No Fear</em>; <em>The Valley of the Black Pig</em>; <em>The Secret Rose</em>; <em>He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven</em>; <em>Adam's Curse</em>; <em>No Second Troy</em>; <em>The Fascination of What's Difficult</em>; <em>September 1913</em>; <em>Paudeen</em>; <em>Fallen Majesty</em>; <em>The Cold Heaven</em>; <em>The Wild Swans at Coole</em>; <em>In Memory of Major Robert Gregory</em>; <em>The Fisherman</em>; <em>Broken Dreams</em>; <em>Ego Dominus Tuus</em>; <em>Sailing to Byzantium</em>; <em>The Tower</em>; <em>Meditations in Time of Civil War</em>; <em>Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen</em>; <em>Leda and the Swan</em>; <em>Among School Children.</em><br><strong>Includes commentary only on: </strong><em>Easter 1916</em>; <em>The Second Coming</em>; <em>A Prayer for My Daughter</em>; <em>A Dialogue of Self and Soul</em>; <em>Byzantium</em>; <em>The Gyres</em>; <em>Lapis Lazuli</em>; <em>Beautiful Lofty Things</em>; <em>Under Ben Bulben</em>; <em>Long-Legged Fly</em>; <em>Man and the Echo</em>; <em>The Circus Animals' Desertion</em>; <em>Politics</em>.</p>