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by: W. B. Yeats
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 821.8
EAN: 9780760749135
ISBN: 0753816652
Label: Phoenix Press
Manufacturer: Phoenix Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 144
Publication Date: March 28, 2003
Publisher: Phoenix Press
Sales Rank: 422449
Studio: Phoenix Press
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Product Description:
All things can tempt me from this craft of verse:
One time it was a woman's face, or worse-
The seeming needs of my fool-driven land;
Now nothing but comes readier to the hand
Than this accustomed toil.
--From All Things Can Tempt Me
Nobel Prize winner W.B. Yeats laid the foundations for an Irish literary revival, drawing inspiration from his country's folklore, the occult, and Celtic philosophy. A writer of both poems and plays, he helped found Dublin's famed Abbey Theatre. The poems here provide an example of his life's work and artistry, beginning with verses such as 'The Stolen Child' from his debut collection Crossways (written when he was 24) through 'Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad?' from On the Boiler, published a year prior to his death.
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Rating:  - The cheapest way to obtain Yeats' best poems in hardcover!
This book is for the classic Yeats reader who wants a greatest hits book, without the exhausting detail of the author's every waking moment. Expertly categorized, his great poems are woven into this book, with excellent type and font that is very readable. The cover is also elegantly designed (you can see it online).
Rating:  - Misleading Title!!
Obviously, it is the selection and not the poetry itself which merits the low rating. I ordered this text after consulting Books in Print; "Selected Poems" seems reasonable enough. In fact, the poems cover only the first half of Yeats's career, and thus many of his finest works are not represented. Caveat emptor!
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