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William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats
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William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats is generally considered to be Ireland's greatest poet, living or dead, and one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923.

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Excerpt 1 from Gitanjali
Jun 06, 2013
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume XIII: A Vision will be released on April 06, 2013 in Trade Paperback
Apr 06, 2013
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume XIII: A Vision is now available in Trade Paperback
Apr 06, 2013
Feb 12, 2013
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume XIII: A Vision will be released on February 12, 2013 in eBook
Feb 12, 2013
Excerpt:
Excerpt 1 from Selected Poems And Four Plays
Oct 23, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IX: Early Art
Oct 19, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume I: The Poems
Sep 01, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from The Tower
Jul 21, 2012
The Winding Stair and Other Poems is now available in eBook
Mar 13, 2012
The Winding Stair and Other Poems will be released on March 13, 2012 in eBook
Mar 13, 2012
The Tower is now available in eBook
Mar 06, 2012
The Tower will be released on March 06, 2012 in eBook
Mar 06, 2012
The Yeats Reader, Revised Edition will be released on November 29, 2011 in eBook
Nov 29, 2011
The Yeats Reader, Revised Edition is now available in eBook
Nov 29, 2011
Selected Poems And Four Plays will be released on November 08, 2011 in eBook
Nov 08, 2011

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Carroll County Times-Georgian, June 7, 2013
...poetry, and the way in which I think it should be approached, reminds me of the poetry of William Butler Yeats and my undergraduate days at The University of Georgia. In Yeats’ “The Second Coming,” for example, the speaker describes a universe an...
Huffington Post, May 14, 2013
...Wolfe. • Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, Robert Wright. • The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats, William Butler Yeats...
Individual.com, May 12, 2013
...British literature is that some of the best writers in the English language have been Irish: James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney. Few readers would think of adding C.S. Lewis to that list. But among the many delightful...
World News Network, May 12, 2013
...British literature is that some of the best writers in the English language have been Irish: James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney. Few readers would think of adding C.S. Lewis to that list. But among the many delightful...
Artdaily.org, May 11, 2013
...the previous highest price for one of her poems at auction of £1,400. Handwritten draft copies of William Butler Yeats poems ‘Are you content’ and ‘The spirit medium’ made £15,000. This surpassed the previous record of £5,000 for a Yeats...
Independent Publisher, May 8, 2013
...that a writer is also a visual artist, but many of the ones I know of (Elizabeth Bishop, William Butler Yeats, James Thurber, for instance) are dead. And so is Robert McGowan. I didn’t find this out until last night—I like to form my opinion of a...
Cheapflights.co.uk, May 8, 2013
...Looking out over the Nile from the Nobles Tombs at Aswan, Egypt. Photo: Charlie Phillips   Egypt – William Butler Yeats, Percy Shelley, Walt Whitman, etc Egypt has been a source of fascination for poets due to its plethora of ancient myths,...
Cleveland Live, June 8, 2013
...besting) the Irish frame drum, the bodhran, played by guitarist Coulter. Foley also related the sad story of William Butler Yeats' decadeslong unrequited love for Maud Gonne, sweetening the tale with recitations of Yeats' wistful, otherworldly poetry,...
World News Network, June 7, 2013
...witticisms. In the 20th century, Ireland produced four winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature: George Bernard Shaw, William Butler Yeats, Samuel Beckett and Seamus Heaney. Although not a Nobel Prize winner, James Joyce is widely considered to be one...
Irish Times, June 7, 2013
...misconstrue my correct remarks to the relationship and the correspondence between the wonderful Croatian sculptor Ivan Mestrovic and William Butler Yeats in any way as having any connection with the present discourse in relation to the future of...
Irish Times, June 7, 2013
...misconstrue my correct remarks to the relationship and the correspondence between the wonderful Croatian sculptor Ivan Mestrovic and William Butler Yeats in any way as having any connection with the present discourse in relation to the future of...
Irish Times, June 7, 2013
...yesterday was related to ongoing discussions in Ireland on the abolition of the Seanad. "I think insofar as William Butler Yeats signed his letter to Ivan Mestrovic, the sculptor, in responding to the suggestion that he might design some of the Irish...
World News Network, June 7, 2013
...witticisms. In the 20th century, Ireland produced four winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature: George Bernard Shaw, William Butler Yeats, Samuel Beckett and Seamus Heaney. Although not a Nobel Prize winner, James Joyce is widely considered to be one...
Carroll County Times-Georgian, June 7, 2013
...poetry, and the way in which I think it should be approached, reminds me of the poetry of William Butler Yeats and my undergraduate days at The University of Georgia. In Yeats’ “The Second Coming,” for example, the speaker describes a universe an...