This selection of Yeats' poetry contains forty poems, spanning his early and mature works including choices from Responsibilities, The Wild Swans at Coole, The Tower, and New Poems. This edition has comprehensive notes on the poems and an Approaches section, offering commentary and activities on key themes and techniques within the poetry, such as Yeats' view of Ireland and his use of myth and symbolism.

 

This book is part of a book series called Oxford Student Texts .

There are 160 pages in this book. This book was published 1993 by Oxford University Press .

W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) was born in Dublin and was educated in Ireland and England. An Irish poet, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature, he was instrumental in the development of a national Irish theatre - and in particular the founding of the Abbey Theatre. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.