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  2. Category:Poetry by W. B. Yeats - Wikipedia

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    Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Poetry by W. B. Yeats" ... (poem) Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven; B. Blood and the Moon; C.

  3. Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Responsibilities and Other Poems - Wikipedia

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    Responsibilities and a Play was printed and published by Yeats's sister, Elizabeth Corbet Yeats, at the Cuala Press in 1914. 400 copies were published. [1]The work contained thirty one poems and a new version of the play The Hour Glass, which was originally written in collaboration with Lady Gregory, but now presented in a new version.

  5. W. B. Yeats bibliography - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. In the Seven Woods - Wikipedia

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    Limited First Edition, In the Seven Woods by W. B. Yeats. In the Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age is a volume of poems by W. B. Yeats, published in 1903 by Elizabeth Yeats's Dun Emer Press, the first edited by this publishing house. [1] Dun Emer published two editions of the book in 1903.

  7. Song of the Old Mother - Wikipedia

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    The poem echoes Yeats' fascination with the Irish peasantry. Written in first person, the poem explains the difficult chores and struggles of an aged, unfortunate woman and her bitter resentment to the young children, whose worries of fondness and personal appearance pale to insignificance when compared to the toils of the old woman.

  8. Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892–1935 - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892–1935 is a poetry anthology edited by W. B. Yeats and published in 1936 by Oxford University Press.A long introductory essay starts from the proposition that the poets included should be all the "good" ones (implicitly the field is Anglo-Irish poetry, though notably a few Indian poets are there) active since the death of Tennyson.

  9. W. B. Yeats - Wikipedia

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    William Butler Yeats [a] (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival , and along with Lady Gregory founded the Abbey Theatre , serving as its chief during its early years.