false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1180208970m/1010547.jpg 1010547 4 <P>Throughout his long life, William Butler Yeats -- Irish writer and premier lyric poet in English in this century -- produced important works in every literary genre, works of astonishing range, energy, erudition, beauty, and skill. His early poetry is memorable and moving. His poems and plays of middle age address the human condition with language that has entered our vocabulary for cataclysmic personal and world events. The writings of his final years offer wisdom, courage, humor, and sheer technical virtuosity. T. S. Eliot pronounced Yeats "the greatest poet of our time -- certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language" and "one of the few whose history is the history of their own time, who are a part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them."<P><I>The Yeats Reader</I> is the most comprehensive single volume to display the full range of Yeats's talents. It presents more than one hundred and fifty of his best-known poems -- more than any other compendium -- plus eight plays, a sampling of his prose tales, and excerpts from his published autobiographical and critical writings. In addition, an appendix offers six early texts of poems that Yeats later revised. Also included are selections from the memoirs left unpublished at his death and complete introductions written for a projected collection that never came to fruition. These are supplemented by unobtrusive annotation and a chronology of the life.<P>Yeats was a protean writer and thinker, and few writers so thoroughly reward a reader's efforts to essay the whole of their canon. This volume is an excellent place to begin that enterprise, to renew an old acquaintance with one of world literature's great voices, or to continue a lifelong interest in the phenomenon of literary genius.<P> 555662 1997 The Yeats Reader: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Prose total:69|5:31|4:22|3:13|2:3|1:0| 69 288 106 4 0 0 false false Wed Jun 10 11:20:44 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 11:20:44 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Jun 24 04:26:23 -0700 2008 Tue Jun 24 04:26:33 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Apr 28 06:21:26 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 28 06:23:05 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Sat Jan 12 21:00:03 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 12 21:01:07 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Sat Dec 05 09:26:56 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 05 09:26:56 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sun Oct 11 20:33:51 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 11 20:48:11 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Oct 07 08:59:24 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 07 08:59:43 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Sun Oct 04 02:23:24 -0700 2009 Sun Oct 04 02:24:45 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Oct 03 07:02:35 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 07:02:35 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Sep 02 15:15:55 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 02 15:15:55 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Aug 09 22:01:57 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 09 22:01:57 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Mon Jul 20 14:50:08 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 14:50:08 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Jul 20 03:22:50 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 20 03:22:50 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Aug 18 08:09:37 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 10:15:12 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 18 08:09:37 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Mon Jun 29 22:08:46 -0700 2009 Mon Jun 29 22:08:46 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Fri Jun 26 21:58:59 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 26 21:58:59 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Thu Jun 18 20:57:35 -0700 2009 Thu Jun 18 20:57:37 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Jun 17 11:46:43 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 21:26:43 -0700 2009 2 0 false false Sat Jun 06 16:07:02 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 16:07:02 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Wed Jun 03 17:22:29 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 03 17:22:29 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1010547