“A terrible beauty is born,” observed the greatest modern Irish poet after his country’s 1916 Easter Rebellion against the British. This streak of proud nationalism, interwoven with elements of Celtic lore and mysticism, and infused with a hard-earned wisdom, makes Yeats’s works resonate to this day. His career spanned five decades, earning him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923, and he is widely regarded as the finest English-language poet of the twentieth century.This volume contains a rich selection of poems from Yeat’s mature work, including all the poems from The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) and Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921). These memorable verses, embodying subtlety and objectivity in language of stark beauty and simplicity, offer a cross-section of Yeat’s multifaceted poetic production.In addition to the famous title poem, the works collected here include the oft-quoted “The Second Coming” as well as “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death,” “The Wild Swans at Coole,” “In Memory of Major Robert Gregory,” “Under the Round Tower,” “Michael Robartes and the Dancer,” “The Rose Tree,” “A Prayer for My Daughter,” “A Meditation in Time of War,” and many more. Dover Original. Irish rebellion; 1916; Nobel Prize winner; 20th-century poetry; Abbey Theatre; Irish Literary Revival; poetry; classic poetry; Dublin; Kildare; The Wild Swans at Coole; In Memory of Major Robert Gregory; An Irish Airman Foresees His Death; Men Improve with the Years; The Collar-Bone of a Hare; Under the Round Tower; Solomon to Sheba; The Living Beauty; A Song; To a Young Beauty; To a Young Girl; The Scholars; Tom O’Roughley; Shepherd and Goatherd; Lines Written in Dejection; The Dawn; On Woman; The Fisherman; The Hawk; Memory; Her Praise; The People; His Phoenix; A Thought from Propertius; Broken Dreams; A Deep-Sworn Vow; Presences; The Balloon of the Mind; To a Squirrel at Kyle-Na-Gno; On Being Asked for a War Poem; In Memory of Alfred Pollexfen; Upon a Dying Lady; Ego Dominus Tuus; A Prayer on Going into My House; The Phases of the Moon; The Cat and the Moon; The Saint and the Hunchback; Two Songs of a Fool; Another Song of a Fool; The Double Vision of Michael Robartes; Michael Robartes and the Dancer; Solomon and the Witch; An Image from a Past Life; Under Saturn; Easter 1916; Sixteen Dead Men; The Rose Tree; 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; To Be Carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee Reviews There are no reviews yet. Be the first to review ““Easter 1916” and Other Poems” Cancel replyYour email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *Your rating * Rate… Perfect Good Average Not that bad Very poor Your review *Name * Email * Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.
