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This is a list of all works by Irish poet and dramatist W. B. (William Butler) Yeats (1865–1939), winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature and a major figure in 20th-century literature. Works sometimes appear twice if parts of new editions or significantly revised.
Pages in category "Poetry by W. B. Yeats" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Adam's Curse (poem)
Yeats began by writing epic poems such as The Isle of Statues and The Wanderings of Oisin. [109] His other early poems are lyrics on the themes of love or mystical and esoteric subjects. Yeats's middle period saw him abandon the pre-Raphaelite character of his early work [110] and attempt to turn himself into a Landor-style social ironist. [111]
The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics is the second poetry collection of W. B. Yeats. [1] [2] It includes the play The Countess Cathleen and group of shorter lyrics that Yeats would later collect under the title of The Rose in his Collected Poems.
First edition (1933) The Winding Stair is a volume of poems by Irish poet W. B. Yeats, published in 1933.It was the next new volume after 1928's The Tower.The title poem was originally published in 1929 by Fountain Press in a signed limited edition, which is exceedingly rare.
The Tower is a book of poems by W. B. Yeats, published in 1928. The Tower was Yeats's first major collection as Nobel Laureate after receiving the Nobel Prize in 1923. It is considered to be one of the poet's most influential volumes and was well received by the public.
In the weeks preceding Yeats′s writing of the poem, his pregnant wife, Georgie Hyde-Lees, caught the virus and was very close to death, but she survived. The highest death rates of the pandemic were among pregnant women, who in some areas had a death rate of up to 70%. Yeats wrote the poem while his wife was convalescing. [6] [1]
The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems was the first collection of poems by W. B. Yeats.It was published in 1889. [1]In addition to the title poem, the last epic-scale poem that Yeats ever wrote, the book includes a number of short poems that Yeats would later collect under the title Crossways in his Collected Poems.