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Michael Robartes and the Dancer. Michael Robartes and the Dancer is a 1920 book of poems by W. B. Yeats. It includes the poems: Michael Robartes and the Dancer. Solomon and the Witch. An Image from a Past Life. Under Saturn. Easter, 1916.
A Prayer for My Daughter. "A Prayer for My Daughter" is a poem by William Butler Yeats written in 1919 and published in 1921 as part of Yeats' collection Michael Robartes and the Dancer. It is written to Anne, his daughter with Georgie Hyde-Lees, whom Yeats married after his last marriage proposal to Maud Gonne was rejected in 1916. [1]
The speaker of the poem is the character Aedh, who appears in Yeats's work alongside two other archetypal characters of the poet's myth: Michael Robartes and Red Hanrahan. The three characters, according to Yeats, represent the "principles of the mind;" whereas Robartes is intellectually powerful and Hanrahan represents Romantic primitivism ...
“The Second Coming” is a poem written by Irish poet William Butler Yeats in 1919, first printed in a magazine named The Dial in November 1920 and included in his 1921 collection of verses “Michael Robartes and the Dancer”. [1]
Publication history. The Wild Swans at Coole, a collection of twenty-nine poems and the play At the Hawk's Well, was first published by the Cuala Press in November 1917. [1] The title poem of the collection had first appeared in the Little Review in June of that year. Macmillan (London and New York) republished the poems in March 1919 without ...
The Rose Tree is a poem by William Butler Yeats. [1] It was published in 1921 as part of his collection Michael Robartes and the Dancer. Synopsis
W. B. Yeats bibliography. This is a list of all works by Irish poet and dramatist W. B. (William Butler) Yeats (1865–1939), winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature and a major figure in 20th-century literature. Works sometimes appear twice if parts of new editions or significantly revised. Posthumous editions are also included if they ...
The Winding Stair and Other Poems. First edition (1933) The Winding Stair is a volume of poems by Irish poet W. B. Yeats, published in 1933. It was the next new volume after 1928's The Tower. The title poem was originally published in 1929 by Fountain Press in a signed limited edition, which is exceedingly rare. [1]