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The Collected Poems of W.B.Yeats (Wordsworth Poetry) (Wordsworth Poetry Library)
by: W.B. Yeats

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Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9781853264542
ISBN: 1853264547
Label: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Manufacturer: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: September 01, 2000
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Studio: Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Sales Rank: 8597

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- Swept off my feet
I first had to study Yeats for a school project and, quite simply, fell in love. (Well done to the male reviewer who discovered this powerful weapon of a poem.) The most beautiful poetry written and ranging from the romantic to the heart-breaking. Buy this book and you too will swoon.

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- "Keats and Yeats are on your side (and Wilde's on mine)"
I must be brief, as my lunch is dangerously close to completion, so here is my Yeats review condensed into a few points:

W.B. Yeats was the greatest poet of the 20th century, even if you only include the works he wrote after 1900.

Looking at his whole body of work, he was a genius and undoubtedly one of the great poets of literature.

Part of what makes him such a genius IMO is his range. At first Yeats seems to live up to how he is sketched - a modern-day (well, 20th century) romanticist with a love of mythology, etc. but then you keep reading and discover that his interests are much wider than just that.

Forget Jackson Pollack, Ernest Hemmingway, etc. - Yeats' life as a searcher for romanticism in ... Read More:

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- Beautiful
Yeats is without a doubt one of the most significant and influential poets of recent times, and probably the most important Anglo-Irish poet ever. His poems are deeply affecting, especially those concerning his unrequited love for Maud Gonne. They deal with diverse subjects like Irish politics of the time, the Republican movement, and more personal themes like love, growing old, death and the problems he saw facing an artist. My favourite poem is probably "Sailing To Byzantium;" "He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven" is beautiful too. I highly recommend this to anyone with even a passing interest in poetry.

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- Fall in love...
All I can say is fall in love with her, read her "He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven" and she will be yours.

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- Remarkably... mediocre
William Butler Yeats is about as bad a poet one can be and still be considered "great". All of his poems are earnest and sincere, but they are totally appalling in Yeats's lack of control of language. The ideas of his poems are instructive, prophetic, and occasionally moving, particularly as he grew older, but as a technical writer he was, 98% of the time, an incompetent bumbler.

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