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All the leading Irish writers and some of the lesser known: playwrights, novelists, short story writers, poets.

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William Butler Yeats is considered Ireland's greatest poet. He is one of the most significant literary figures of the twentieth century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. This is the definitive collection of his poems, encompassing the full range of his powers, from the love lyrics to the political poems, from poems meditating on the bliss of youth, to the verse that rails against old age. A detailed notes section and full...

Contents: H.S.H. Princess Caroline, Opening Address, C. George Sandulescu, Preface, A. Norman Jeffares, Address on Yeats the European, Alasdair D.F. Macrae, When Years Summoned Golden Codgers To His Side, Helen Vendler, Yeats As A European Poet: The Poetics of Cacophony, Patrick Rafroidi, Yeats's France Revisited, Denis Donoghue, Yeats and European Criticism, Jacqueline Genet, Villiers De l'Isle Adam and W.B. Yeats, Warwick Gould, A Crowded Th...

Arranged in chronological sequence by the preeminent Yeats authority A. Norman Jeffares, this collection displays the timeless depth and range of Yeats's romantic poetry. The Introduction offers a biographical sketch of Yeats, detailing the significant people and events of his life.

William Butler Yeats is considered Ireland's greatest poet. He is one of the most significant literary figures of the twentieth century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. This is the definitive collection of his poems, encompassing the full range of his powers, from the love lyrics to the political poems, from poems meditating on the bliss of youth, to the verse that rails against old age. A detailed notes section and full...

Rev. ed. of: A commentary on the collected poems of W.B. Yeats. 1968.

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The last of the three volumes, roughly spans the last thirty years of the nineteenth century, a period which saw the emergence of the Land League, the dynamiting campaign of the Fenians, and the rise and fall of Charles Stewart Parnell. It witnessed changes in all literary genres. Standish James OGrady conveyed a sense of heroic excitement in his affirmation of Gaelic Irelands literary heritage. Douglas Hyde promoted Irish language and culture...

Half a century ago, Norman Jeffares wrote the definitive biography of W.B. Yeats, which was subsequently published in a revised edition in 1990 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the poet's death. The present volume, a re-issue of the 1990 edition with a new introduction and bibliography, is an account of Yeats's life and work, together with a fascinating collection of letters, photographs and poetry.

Ireland's Love Poems" highlights one country's extraordinary poetic tradition, in both the English and Irish languages, by male and female poets, both ancient and modern. The result is a cumulative portrait of love that mirrors Irish history in its complexity.