The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats - Wordsworth Poetry Library (Paperback)

With a new Introduction by Cedric Watts, Research Professor of English, University of Sussex.
W. B. Yeats was at once a Romantic and a Modernist a mystical visionary, a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, a Nobel laureate, a playwright, and above all, a poet. From the outset, he wrote with the aim of pouring his "very self" into his verse.

T. S. Eliot, among many who recognised Yeats’s genius, described him as “one of those few whose history is the history of their own time, who are part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them.” For anyone seeking to understand the literary landscape of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Yeats’s work is indispensable.

This volume presents the complete range of his published poetry from the delicate, dreamlike early lyrics that first earned him acclaim to the powerful, resonant later works that confirm his standing as a towering figure in modern literature. Paradoxical, proud, and deeply passionate, Yeats’s voice continues to captivate readers with undiminished force.

Paperback/Softback 432 pages

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