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  2. W. B. Yeats - Wikipedia

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    W. B. Yeats. 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.

  3. The Second Coming (poem) - Wikipedia

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    “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]

  4. W. B. Yeats bibliography - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. The Lake Isle of Innisfree - Wikipedia

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    I hear it in the deep heart's core. " The Lake Isle of Innisfree " is a twelve-line poem comprising three quatrains, written by William Butler Yeats in 1888 and first published in the National Observer in 1890. It was reprinted in The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics in 1892 and as an illustrated Cuala Press Broadside in 1932.

  6. Sailing to Byzantium - Wikipedia

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    Sailing to Byzantium" is a poem by William Butler Yeats, first published in his collection October Blast, in 1927 [1] and then in the 1928 collection The Tower. It comprises four stanzas in ottava rima, each made up of eight lines of iambic pentameter. It uses a journey to Byzantium (Constantinople) as a metaphor for a spiritual journey. Yeats ...

  7. The Stolen Child - Wikipedia

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    The Stolen Child. The poem was written in 1886 and is considered to be one of Yeats's more notable early poems. The poem is based on Irish legend and concerns faeries beguiling a child to come away with them. Yeats had a great interest in Irish mythology about faeries resulting in his publication of Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry ...

  8. The Wild Swans at Coole (poem) - Wikipedia

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    The Wild Swans at Coole (Collection) at Wikisource. "The Wild Swans at Coole" is a lyric poem by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats (1865–1939). Written between 1916 and early 1917, the poem was first published in the June 1917 issue of the Little Review, and became the title poem in the Yeats's 1917 and 1919 collections The Wild Swans at Coole.

  9. Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven - Wikipedia

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    He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven at Wikisource. " Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven ", also known as " He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven " in later publications, is a poem by William Butler Yeats. It was published in 1899 in his third volume of poetry, The Wind Among the Reeds.

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