William Butler Yeats

Selected Poems And Four Plays (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Rosenthal, M. l.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Since its first appearance in 1962, M. L. Rosenthal's classic selection of Yeats's poems and plays has attracted hundreds of thousands of readers. This newly revised edition includes 211 poems and 4 plays. It adds The Words Upon the Window-Pane, one of Yeats's most startling dramatic works in its realistic use of a seance as the setting for an eerily powerful reenactment of Jonathan Swift's rigorous idealism, baffling love relationships, and tragic madness. The collection profits from recent scholarship that has helped to establish Yeats's most reliable texts, in the order set by the poet himself. And his powerful lyrical sequences are amply represented, culminating in the selection from Last Poems and Two Plays, which reaches its climax in the brilliant poetic plays The Death of Cuchulain and Purgatory.

Scholars, students, and all who delight in Yeats's varied music and sheer quality will rejoice in this expanded edition. As the introduction observes, "Early and late he has the simple, indispensable gift of enchanting the ear....He was also the poet who, while very much of his own day in Ireland, spoke best to the people of all countries. And though he plunged deep into arcane studies, his themes are most clearly the general ones of life and death, love and hate, man's condition, and history's meanings. He began as a sometimes effete post-Romantic, heir to the pre-Raphaelites, and then, quite naturally, became a leading British Symbolist; but he grew at last into the boldest, most vigorous voice of this century." Selected Poems and Four Plays represents the essential achievement of the greatest twentieth-century poet to write in English.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781451673753
• Artikelnr.: 37895930

Autorenporträt

William Butler Yeats is generally considered to be Ireland’s greatest poet, living or dead, and one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Foreword to the Fourth Edition
Introduction: The Poetry of Yeats
from Crossways (1889)
The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes
Ephemera
The Stolen Child
To an Isle in the Water
Down by the Salley Gardens
from The Rose (1893)
To the Rose upon the Rood of Time
Fergus and the Druid
Cuchulain's Fight with the Sea
The Rose of the World
A Faery Song
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
The Pity of Love
The Sorrow of Love
When You Are Old
A Dream of Death
Who Goes with Fergus?
The Man Who Dreamed of Faeryland
The Two Trees
To Ireland in the Coming Times
from The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)
The Hosting of the Sidhe
The Moods
The Unappeasable Host
Into the Twilight
The Song of Wandering Aengus
The Song of the Old Mother
He Bids His Beloved Be at Peace
He Reproves the Curlew
To His Heart, Bidding It Have No Fear
The Cap and Bells
The Valley of the Black Pig
He Hears the Cry of the Sedge
The Lover Pleads with His Friends for Old Friends
He Wishes His Beloved Were Dead
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
from In the Seven Woods (1904)
The Folly of Being Comforted
Adam's Curse
Red Hanrahan's Song About Ireland
The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water
from The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)
A Woman Homer Sung
Words
No Second Troy
Against Unworthy Praise
The Fascination of What's Difficult
A Drinking Song
On Hearing That the Students of Our New University Have Joined the
Agitation Against Immoral Literature
To a Poet, Who Would Have Me Praise Certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and
Mine
The Mask
Upon a House Shaken by the Land Agitation
These Are the Clouds
All Things Can Tempt Me
Brown Penny
from Responsibilities (1914)
[Pardon, Old Fathers]
September 1913
To a Friend Whose Work Has Come to Nothing
Paudeen
To a Shade
When Helen Lived
The Three Hermits
Beggar to Beggar Cried
Running to Paradise
I. The Witch
II. The Peacock
I. To a Child Dancing in the Wind
II. Two Years Later
A Memory of Youth
Fallen Majesty
The Cold Heaven
That the Night Come
The Magi
The Dolls
A Coat
from The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
The Wild Swans at Coole
In Memory of Major Robert Gregory
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
The Collar-Bone of a Hare
Solomon to Sheba
To a Young Beauty
The Scholars
Tom O'Roughley
Lines Written in Dejection
The Dawn
On Woman
The Fisherman
The Hawk
Memory
The People
A Thought from Propertius
A Deep-Sworn Vow
Presences
On Being Asked for a War Poem
UPON A DYING LADY:
I. Her Courtesy
II. Certain Artists Bring Her Dolls and Drawings
III. She Turns the Dolls' Faces to the Wall
IV. The End of Day
V. Her Race
VI. Her Courage
VII. Her Friends Bring Her a Christmas Tree
Ego Dominus Tuus
The Phases of the Moon
The Cat and the Moon
The Saint and the Hunchback
Two Songs of a Fool
The Double Vision of Michael Robartes
from Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921)
Solomon and the Witch
An Image from a Past Life
Easter, 1916
On a Political Prisoner
The Leaders of the Crowd
Towards Break of Day
Demon and Beast
The Second Coming
A Prayer for My Daughter
A Meditation in Time of War
Calvary (1921)
from The Tower (1928)
Sailing to Byzantium
The Tower
MEDITATIONS IN TIME OF CIVIL WAR:
I. Ancestral Houses
II. My House
III. My Table
IV. My Descendants
V. The Road at My Door
VI. The Stare's Nest by My Window
VII. I See Phantoms of Hatred and of the Heart's Fullness and of the Coming
Emptiness
NINETEEN HUNDRED AND NINETEEN
Two Songs from a Play
Fragments
Leda and the Swan
Among School Children
from A MAN YOUNG AND OLD:
I. First Love
IV. The Death of the Hare
IX. The Secrets of the Old
All Souls' Night
from The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)
In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz
Death
A Dialogue of Self and Soul
Blood and the Moon
Veronica's Napkin
The Nineteenth Century and After
Three Movements
Coole and Ballylee, 1931
For Anne Gregory
Swift's Epitaph
The Choice
Byzantium
The Mother of God
Vacillation
Quarrel in Old Age
Remorse for Intemperate Speech
from WORDS FOR MUSIC PERHAPS:
I. Crazy Jane and the Bishop
II. Crazy Jane Reproved
III. Crazy Jane on the Day of Judgment
IV. Crazy Jane and Jack the Journeyman
V. Crazy Jane on God
VI. Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop
VII. Crazy Jane Grown Old Looks at the Dancers
VIII. Girl's Song
IX. Young Man's Song
X. Her Anxiety
XV. Three Things
XVI. Lullaby
XVII. After Long Silence
XX. 'I Am of Ireland'
XXII. Tom the Lunatic
XXV. The Delphic Oracle upon Plotinus
from A WOMAN YOUNG AND OLD:
III. A First Confession
VI. Chosen
IX. A Last Confession
The Words Upon the Window-Pane (1934)
from A Full Moon in March:
"Parnell's Funeral" and Other Poems (1935)
Parnell's Funeral
Church and State
from SUPERNATURAL SONGS:
I. Ribh at the Tomb of Baile and Aillinn
III. Ribh in Ecstasy
IV. There
VI. He and She
VIII. Whence Had They Come?
IX. The Four Ages of Man
XII. Meru
from New Poems (1938)
The Gyres
Lapis Lazuli
The Three Bushes
The Lady's First Song
The Lady's Second Song
The Lady's Third Song
The Lover's Song
The Chambermaid's First Song
The Chambermaid's Second Song
An Acre of Grass
What Then?
Beautiful Lofty Things
Come Gather Round Me, Parnellites
The Wild Old Wicked Man
The Great Day
Parnell
The Spur
A Model for the Laureate
The Old Stone Cross
Those Images
The Municipal Gallery Revisited
from On the Boiler (1939)
Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad?
Crazy Jane on the Mountain
A Statesman's Holiday
from Last Poems and Two Plays (1939)
Under Ben Bulben
The Black Tower
Cuchulain Comforted
from Three Marching Songs
The Statues
News for the Delphic Oracle
Long-legged Fly
John Kinsella's Lament for Mrs. Mary Moore
The Apparitions
Man and the Echo
The Circus Animals' Desertion
Politics
The Death of Cuchulain (1939)
Purgatory (1939)
Notes
Glossary of Names and Places
Selective Bibliography
Index to Titles
Index of First Lines of Poems