Selected Poems

William Yeats, Timothy Webb, Timothy Webb

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Penguin
02 January 2001

Poetry; Poetry by individual poets

Series: Penguin Modern Classics

W.B. Yeats's Selected Poems is edited with an introduction and notes by Timothy Webb in Penguin Modern Classics.

Few have lived their ideas so passionately and nobly as W.B. Yeats in his love affairs, politics and poetry. From his youth in the 1880s, a fertile dreamer rediscovering and remaking the Irish tradition, he grew into a great and innovative poet of the twentieth century. This selection of Yeats's work includes the final book from the unjustly neglected narrative poem The Wanderings of Oisin and a number of lyrics from Yeats's work as poetic dramatist. This edition breaks new ground by allowing the reader to engage with a dozen poems in alternative versions; in many other cases it provides significant variants, so that Yeats's struggle to revise his poetry can be experienced with unusual immediacy. It also includes explanatory and textual notes for each poem.

'A compelling poetic presence ... together with Joyce, Yeats made modern Irish poetry possible' Timothy Webb

By: William Yeats
Notes by: Timothy Webb
Introduction by: Timothy Webb
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 255g
ISBN: 9780141181257
ISBN 10: 0141181257
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 02 January 2001
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

W B Yeats (1865 - 1939) is one of the great and innovative poets of the twentieth century. 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 producedin the years between his fiftieth birthday in 1915 and his death in 1939. Timothy Webb is Professor of English at the University of Bristol.