Book description
This selection of the works of W B Yeats, includes the final book from
the unfairly neglected narrative poem 'The Wanderings of Oisin' and a
number of lyrics from Yeats's work as poetic dramatist. It breaks new
ground by allowing the reader to engage with a dozen poems in
alternative versions; in many other cases it provides significant
variants, so that Yeats's struggle to revise his poetry can be
experienced with unusual immediacy.
W B Yeats (1865 - 1939) is one of the great and innovative poets of
the twentieth century. Much of his most vigorous verse on love, sex,
Irish and international politics, the complexities of the occult and
the 'sedentary toil' of poetry was producedin the years between his
fiftieth birthday in 1915 and his death in 1939.
Timothy Webb is Professor of English at the University of Bristol.
