Complete Poetry and Plays

by W.B. Yeats

This is the seventh volume of a new series of publications by Delphi Classics, the best-selling publisher of classical works. Many poetry collections are often poorly formatted and difficult to read on eReaders. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents the complete poetical works and plays of W. B. Yeats, with illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version: 1)

* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Yeats' life and works
* Concise introductions to the poetry and other works
* The complete poetry, appearing for the first time in digital print
* Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts
* Excellent formatting of the poems and plays
* Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry
* Easily locate the poems you want to read
* ALL 30 plays, including rare dramas appearing for the first time in digital print
* Features the complete autobiographies - discover Yeats' literary life in SEVEN different works
* Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres
* UPDATED with NCX toc feature allowing readers to skip forward or back to each poem using the Kindle's 5-way controller

CONTENTS:
The Poetry Collections
THE WANDERINGS OF OISIN AND OTHER POEMS
THE COUNTESS KATHLEEN AND VARIOUS LEGENDS AND LYRICS
THE WIND AMONG THE REEDS
Poems from THE SHADOWY WATERS
TWO NARRATIVE POEMS
IN THE SEVEN WOODS
THE GREEN HELMET AND OTHER POEMS
RESPONSIBILITIES
THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE
MICHAEL ROBARTES AND THE DANCER
THE TOWER
THE WINDING STAIR AND OTHER POEMS
PARNELL’S FUNERAL AND OTHER POEMS
NEW POEMS, 1938
Poems from ON THE BOILER
LAST POEMS

The Poems
LIST OF POEMS IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
LIST OF POEMS IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER

The Plays
THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN
THE LAND OF HEART’S DESIRE
DIARMUID AND GRANIA
WHERE THERE IS NOTHING
CATHLEEN NI HOULIHAN
THE HOUR-GLASS
THE POT OF BROTH
THE KING’S THRESHOLD
ON BAILE’S STRAND
DEIRDRE
THE UNICORN FROM THE STARS
THE GREEN HELMET
THE SHADOWY WATERS
THE HOUR-GLASS (VERSE VERSION)
AT THE HAWK’S WELL
THE DREAMING OF THE BONES
THE ONLY JEALOUSY OF EMER
CALVARY
THE PLAYER QUEEN
KING OEDIPUS
OEDIPUS AT COLONUS
THE CAT AND THE MOON
FIGHTING THE WAVES
THE WORDS UPON THE WINDOW-PANE
THE RESURRECTION
THE KING OF THE GREAT CLOCK TOWER
A FULL MOON IN MARCH
THE HERNE’S EGG
PURGATORY
THE DEATH OF CUCHULAIN

The Autobiographies
REVERIES OVER CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH
THE TREMBLING OF THE VEIL
DRAMATIS PERSONAE 1896-1902
ESTRANGEMENT EXTRACTS FROM A DIARY KEPT IN 1909
THE DEATH OF SYNGE EXTRACTS FROM A DIARY KEPT IN 1909
THE BOUNTY OF SWEDEN
THE IRISH DRAMATIC MOVEMENT.

Genres: Poetry, Classics

2412 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 20, 2012

About the author

William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and dramatist, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years Yeats served as an Irish Senator for two terms. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years. In 1923 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for what the Nobel Committee described as "inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation." He was the first Irishman so honored. Yeats is generally considered one of the few writers who completed their greatest works after being awarded the Nobel Prize; such works include The Tower (1928) and The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1929).

Yeats was born and educated in Dublin but spent his childhood in County Sligo. He studied poetry in his youth, and from an early age was fascinated by both Irish legends and the occult. Those topics feature in the first phase of his work, which lasted roughly until the turn of the century. His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889, and those slow paced and lyrical poems display debts to Edmund Spenser and Percy Bysshe Shelley, as well as to the Pre-Raphaelite poets. From 1900, Yeats' poetry grew more physical and realistic. He largely renounced the transcendental beliefs of his youth, though he remained preoccupied with physical and spiritual masks, as well as with cyclical theories of life.
--from Wikipedia

Reviews

[milena]

não li as peças pq não estou me sentindo na vibe por agora mas pretendo revisitar. gostei muito dos temas que o yeats abordava nos poemas dele, principalmente os que envolviam mitologia e ocultismo