Description
A leader of the twentieth-century Irish nationalist movement, who eventually became one of the Free States’s senators, William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is also the greatest poet that nation has yet produced. The present selection includes poetry from every period in life, dealing with all the topics closest to his heart: love, death, old age, ambition, the poet’s craft, and of course the history and destiny of Ireland.







Milk and Honey
The Lover's Pinch
The Silvering
Gold from the Stone
River Lane
The 'White City'
Book of Mercy
Luck Is the Hook