Sailing to Byzantium

W B Yeats

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Penguin
15 July 2025

Poetry; Poetry by individual poets

Series: Penguin Archive

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books

'Under bare Ben Bulben's head In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid. An ancestor was rector there Long years ago, a church stands near, By the road an ancient cross. No marble, no conventional phrase; On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut-

Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!'

By: W B Yeats
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 179mm, Width: 110mm, Spine: 6mm
Weight: 73g
ISBN: 9780241746981
ISBN 10: 0241746981
Series: Penguin Archive
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 15 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) was one of the greatest and most innovative poets of the twentieth century, and a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival. Much of his most vigorous verse on love, sex, Irish and international politics, the complexities of the occult and the 'sedentary toil' of poetry was produced in the years between his fiftieth birthday in 1915 and his death in 1939. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923.