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"The Wild Swans at Coole" is a lyric poem by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865–1939). Written between 1916 and early 1917, the poem was first published in the June 1917 issue of the Little Review , and became the title poem in the Yeats's 1917 and 1919 collections The Wild Swans at Coole .
The Wild Swans at Coole is the name of two collections of poetry by W. B. Yeats, published in 1917 and 1919.
William Butler Yeats [a] (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature.He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with Lady Gregory founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years.
Near this tower, in Coole Park, began the Irish Literary Revival. [5] Thoor Ballylee is also known today as Yeats's Tower, because in 1916 (or 1917) Yeats purchased the property for the nominal sum of £35 because he was so enchanted with it and especially as it was located in a rural area. [6]
Yeats changed the poem's title from "To a friend who has asked me to sign his manifesto to the neutral nations" to "A Reason for Keeping Silent" before sending it in a letter to James, which Yeats wrote at Coole Park on 20 August 1915. The poem was prefaced with a note stating: "It is the only thing I have written of the war or will write, so I ...
A Cradle Song (W. B. Yeats poem) D. Down by the Salley Gardens; A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety; E. Easter, 1916 ... The Wild Swans at Coole;
Ego Dominus Tuus, Latin for "I am your lord", sometimes translated as "I am your master", is a poem by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats.It was published in the 1918 book Per Amica Silentia Lunae, where it introduced some of Yeats's essays, and collected with other poems in The Wild Swans at Coole (1919).
Yeats, William Butler (2005), Kelly, John; Schuchard, Richard (eds.), The collected letters of W. B. Yeats, Oxford University Press; Brief History of Coole Park, Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, archived from the original on 15 April 2013; Representing the Great War: Texts and Contexts (8th ed.), The Norton Anthology of English ...