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Pages: 284, Paperback, University of Michigan Library

Juvenile Nonfiction Poetry General

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Genre: Literary Criticism. Subgenre: European / English + Irish + Scottish + Welsh. Publisher: Syracuse Univ Pr. Pages: 310. Edition: Reprint. Language: English. Format: paperback. Release Date: April 1, 1996. Date Published: April 1, 1996.

An appreciation for poetry is something you can instill in your children at a young age. This series introduces the works of some of the most talented poets in history, such as Emily Dickinson, Rudyard Kipling, and Walt Whitman. Each 48-page book has stunning, painted illustrations portraying the poem’s message. Hard to understand terms are defined to enhance comprehension. The timeless writings and breathtaking illustrations will attract children to the beautiful world of poetry. – elise

Twenty-six of William Butler Yeats' most compelling verses transport us to his beloved Ireland, along with magnificent paintings by Glenn Harrington that are evocative and dramatic. He writes of mythology and magic, personal struggles, visions, and the fight for freedom - themes that will fascinate and provoke people of all ages. Young readers especially will develop an appreciation of poetry that they'll carry with them for the rest of their lives.

Yeats received a Nobel Prize for his work in 1923, and he was proud to represent a now-independent Ireland. He continued his extramarital affairs, citing a “second puberty” triggered by a late-life vasectomy, and his verse seemed to grow in boldness and strength during this phase. It is quite likely that these passionate forays fueled his desire to write.

This title is being sold in the downloadable VitalBook™ format. William Butler Yeats was instrumental in the Irish revival and the founding of the Irish National Theatre and the Irish Academy of Letters. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature primarily for his theatre pieces, but he is best known as one of the great poets of the twentieth century. An excerpt from “The Coming of Wisdom with Time” (1910) follows: Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed...

Juvenile Nonfiction Poetry General

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“There is no disputing [Yeats’] influence… He created a poetic language for the 20th century” (Hamilton, 596). This handsomely printed private press edition of Yeats’ works is from the Shakespeare Head Press, founded by Elizabethan scholar Arthur Henry Bullen at Stratford-on-Avon in 1904. “Bullen’s original aim was to produce a good edition of Shakespeare’s  works, and his ten volume Stratford Town Shakespeare was completed in 1907. After Bullen died in 1927, the press was acquired by a partnership...

"The most ambitious of the many important projects in current studies of Yeats and perhaps of modern poetry generally. . . . The list of both general and series editors, as well as prospective preparers of individual volumes, reads like a Who's Who of Yeats textual studies in North America. Further, the project carries the blessing of Yeats's heirs and bespeaks an ongoing commitment from a major university press. . . . The series will inevitably engender critical studies based on a more solid footing...

First American edition. Fine in a very attractive, very good or better dustwrapper with modest toning to the spine, and tiny nicks and tears. A nice copy.

Set to a text by William Butler Yeats, this work was commissioned by the National Youth Choir of Great Britain and The King's Singers to celebrate their 25th and 40th anniversaries, respectively. The chorus represents the voice of "the human child, innocent and naïve" while the six solo voices represent the "water and the wild," seducing the children away from the world with the promise of endless revelry and eternal youth.

YEATS, William Butler. Variorum Edition of the Poems of W.B. Yeats. Edited by Peter Allt and Russell K. Alspach. New York: The Macmillan Company , 1957. First edition. Limited to 825 numbered copies, signed by Yeats, this being number 721. Octavo (9 1/4 x 6 1/8 inches; 234 x 155 mm). xxxv, [1, blank], 884 pp. With signed limitation page inserted after half-title. Original quarter orange buckram over beige buckram boards. Spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Top edge stained gray. A fine copy. In the...

Pages: 672, Edition: 1, Hardcover, Facts on File

YEATS, William Butler. Early Poems and Stories. New York: Macmillan, 1925. Octavo, original half blue cloth, paper spine and cover labels, uncut and partially unopened. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $4500.

New and revised edition. Horace Reynolds' extensive penned and penciled notations throughout, page 357 loose and laid in with typed paper over text, thus good only. Scholar Horace Reynolds was a collector of Yeats' newspaper prose in the Boston "Pilot' and "Providence Sunday Journal". He authored Letters to the New Island. Signed by Horace Reynolds on the front fly.