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by W.B. Yeats, محمدصادق رئیسی (Translator)

"A terrible beauty is born," observed the greatest modern Irish poet after his country's 1916 Easter Rebellion against the British. This streak of proud nationalism, interwoven with elements of Celtic lore and mysticism, and infused with a hard-earned wisdom, makes Yeats's works resonate to this day. His career spanned five decades, earning him the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923, and he is widely regarded as the finest English-language poet of the twentieth century.
This volume contains a rich selection of poems from Yeat's mature work, including all the poems from The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) and Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921). These memorable verses, embodying subtlety and objectivity in language of stark beauty and simplicity, offer a cross-section of Yeat's multifaceted poetic production.
In addition to the famous title poem, the works collected here include the oft-quoted "The Second Coming" as well as "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death," "The Wild Swans at Coole," "In Memory of Major Robert Gregory," "Under the Round Tower," "Michael Robartes and the Dancer," "The Rose Tree," "A Prayer for My Daughter," "A Meditation in Time of War," and many more.

Genres: Poetry, Classics, Irish Literature, Ireland, Literature, Read For College, 20th Century

137 pages, Paperback

First published July 11, 1997

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

[Claudia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fabulous writer. Fabulous poet. A man after my own heart. Whose poetry I love and it's so utterly beautiful. It's the Irish plight in immortal words. A terrible beauty is born. Indeed.

[Leah · Rating 3 out of 5]

This collection was definitely not a boring set, but I'm realizing that I've been reading so much of Mary Oliver and Wendell Berry that I feel a bit like I have lost my ability to read more classic poetic style. I still enjoyed making my way through this collection and there were a handful of poems I adored in it.

[Andrijana · Rating 5 out of 5]

a terrible beauty is born

[Emma's In Stock · Rating 4 out of 5]

Even though I didn't understand many of the poems in this book, I must say that I still enjoyed reading them. Whether understood or not, the rhymes and wordplay used were so soothing and lovely that it was still captivating to read.

This is one of my favorite poetry books I've read in a long time.

[Dylan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Surprisingly, nearly every poem in these two collections is a saccharine, Romantic, neo-Victorian string of largely-cliched pastoral and classical imagery. The atmospheric modernism of The Second Coming stands out as an absolute oddity amidst such archaic sensibilities. Even well-known political poems like Easter 1916, while stronger than some of the more mundane and old-fashioned pieces like The Wild Swans at Coole, contain a forced rhythm that feels out of place with the times they describe. Like the seemingly purposeful anachronisms of William Blake and the vacuous "ditties" of Byron, the style of Yeats the poet maintains an outsized influence I fail to understand. What is it that separates him from any other lyric poet? As one who has studied him up to the graduate level, it is a mystery that continues to remain unsolved for me.

[James · Rating 2 out of 5]

I'm almost ashamed to say that I enjoyed this book so little. Perhaps if I were more aware of the Irish problems of the early twentieth century, I may have appreciated it more. "The Second Coming," naturally, leapt off the page with its powerful language. But I was so passionately unmoved by the vast majority of these poems. They seem old, out of date and certainly out of touch with me. Even the rhyming seems forced in many cases. Were it not Yeats, I would probably have rated this worthy of a mere single star.

[Kathy Duncan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Her Praise

"...I will talk no more of book or the long war
But walk by the dry thorn until I have found
Some beggar sheltering from the wind, and there
Manage the talk until her name com round.
If there be rags enough he will know her name
And be well pleased remembering it, for in the old days,
Though she had young men's praise and old men's blame,
Among the poor both old and young gave her praise."

[Sinta · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read for my audit of Modern Poetry (English 222).

I read through some poems last Monday before class, and Isabel read me a few over the weekend. The Balloon of the Mind has stuck in my mind due to its connection with my obsession with how our ideology and mind is shaped and confined by our environment.

The political poetry was a standout, and I'd love to read it a bit more closely over summer (as well as some of his other work). I want to dig into the Irish Revolution.

[Carina · Rating 4 out of 5]

yeats has a nice writing style and he uses lovely imagery.

however i cant get over the fact that he's hung up on the maud gonne (who btw rejected his marriage proposals like 5 times) and acted all salty calling her husband/ boyfriend a "drunken vainglorious lout. / He had done most bitter wrong/ to some who are near my heart,". Yeats is talking about how he has stolen his muse (what a loser)

anyways his poems are nice

[Malvina · Rating 5 out of 5]

An exceptional moving volume, particularly with the poem of the title and its last devastating line: A terrible beauty is born. Other wonderful poems included are The Wild Swans at Coole and An Irish Airman Forsees His Death. A poem not in this anthology which I also love is He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven. An amazing poet.

[Sofia Terèse · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.7 stars. picked this up because we read Second Coming in class and I loved it. good introduction to yeats for me. I like how he creates his own canon, because that’s something you usually can only do in fiction. -1 for misogyny (high levels of)

[Anna · Rating 3 out of 5]

This probably deserves a higher rating but I am not well versed enough in the historical context of this time and place for many of these poems to have as great of an impact as they might otherwise. I plan to revisit :)

[Caitlin Conlon · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars. Yeats' words are transcendent in that even now in 2017, so long after he first wrote them, I can find relevance and meaning as it applies to my own life. truly miraculous.

[Mumtaza Rizky Iswanda · Rating 4 out of 5]

It captures and delivers the nuance of 20th century socio-cultural dynamic to us perfectly

[Shadowzzz3 · Rating 3 out of 5]

A few gems but overall underwhelming and boring.

[Radish · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lovely poems.

[Katelyn Burklow · Rating 4 out of 5]

His poetry is excellent, Sailing to Byzantium being one of my favorites and making me want to be immortalized in a piece of art as well.

[Jad Wannous · Rating 3 out of 5]

All changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.

Very conversational, colloquial, subjective and personal poem.

[Andrew · Rating 5 out of 5]

None but Yeats. Yeats' preoccupation with becoming older and losing that spirit of youth is speaking to me. I seem to have lost my fire and don't know where I've put it. "...Oh heart / The living beauty is for younger men, / We cannot pay it's tribute of wild tears." Maybe it's just burning a little lower. Yeats' poetry reflects and enriches my understanding not only of Irish culture and the issues of class in early 20th-century Ireland (Irish boys going to war for Britain, a nation that has enslaved and repressed Ireland for centuries), but of love and loss.

Probably best known for his prophetic "Second Coming" - which is, don't get me wrong, a mind-blowing and, judging from the current apocalypse-baiting going on in the Middle East, not necessarily off the mark poem - Yeats' other poetry stands up well, too. He speaks on the wisdom of women, the moon as a measure of a man's life, and death.

This book is a great little treasure, only cost me a dollar fifty a few years back. There is no annotation or explanation, but if you aren't doing any seriously scholarly work, it's not a bad one to get you started.

[Carol Bakker · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some of the poems penetrated my emotions; others I found impenetrable. Yeats comes back to the themes of death, loss, growing old, beauty, nature and sacrifice with the luscious language that seems to be the birthright of the Irish. Yeats' poems are full of allusions, the kind of treasure hunt I love. I was surprised to find the source of other literary works: Things fall apart / Slouching to Bethlehem.

My two favorite poems--

"In Memory of Major Robert Gregory", which is a poem about friendship.
"Now that we're almost settled in our house
I'll name the friends that cannot sup with us [...]
All, all are in my thoughts tonight being dead."

In each stanza he gives a thumbnail sketch of close companions: a scholar, an enquirer, a horse man, a wood-worker, a soldier. All these shared in the "discourtesy of death."

Ah, the poignancy: "What made us dream that he could comb grey hair?"

~ ~ ~

"A Prayer for my Daughter"
The poet walks and prays that his daughter will be beautiful, but also kind, courteous, and full of merriment.

[Ali · Rating 3 out of 5]

A small but kindred collection from Yeats..."A Prayer for my Daughter" was particularly moving as any parent or uncle, aunt or friend might identify with having "walked and prayed for this young child an hour..." in times of sickness. His comments on the long war were simple but deeply felt-"Now and in time be, wherever green is worn, Are changed, changed utterly, A terrible beauty is born" (from Easter 1916). I think I'll read him again.

[Mary Tuley · Rating 4 out of 5]

How has Ireland managed to produce so MANY major poets?

[Risa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Easter 1916 and Other Poems (Dover Thrift Editions) by William Butler Yeats (1997)

[Anie · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's Yeats. He's a master of image and of carefully selected, powerful words. Of course I had a good time reading this.

[Mii · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is a great read!

[Zohoor shinhwa · Rating 4 out of 5]

* أقرأ Easter 1916 فقط من هذه المجموعه *


القصيدة كُتبت في مجموعة شباب كانت لديهم الهمه ليستعدو لانشاء مظاهره ضد بريطانيا ليطالبو باستقلال آيرلند وكانو قررابةة 500 شخص لكن في اليوم التالي قتل منهم 300 وسجن البقيه تحت التعذيب ..

ييتس هنا يقوم بدور مؤرخ حيث انه يود ترسيخ هذه الحادثة من خلال ذكر اسماء بعضهم والاشاره لبعض الاعمال البطوليه التي قاموا بها ..
و قد كان ييتس التقى بهم قبل يوم من اعلان ثورتهم وهذا ما أحزنه حيث انه رأى نشاطهمم وتفاؤلهم والامل الذي يمضون به للمطالبه باستقلال آيرلند لكن الحظ لم يوفقهم وتلقوا نهاية اليمه 💔