A Poet to His Beloved: The Early Love Poems of W.B.Yeats

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Uncollected Prose by W. B. Yeats, two volumes, edited by John P. Frayne and Colton Johnson, Columbia University Press, 1970.

A favourite love poem of many, ‘Raglan Road’ is perhaps the most well-known piece of work from this well-known 20th century poet. Meeting Point : ‘Meeting Point’ is a poem by Irish writer and poet Louis MacNeice from Ireland’s post-modernist generation of poets. While his poetry often revolves around politics, this particular poem uses different literary techniques to explore romantic themes. As we mentioned before, many of Yeats’ poems were inspired by mythology and ‘Leda and the Swan’ is exactly that. The Correspondence of Robert Bridges and W. B. Yeats, edited by Richard J. Finneran, Macmillan, 1977.

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No expectation fails there, No pleasing habit ends, No man grows old, No girl grows cold, But friends walk by friends.” Although Ireland has no national poet, W.B. Yeats is often considered to take the title if there was one. The post-2016 turn to Yeats is no surprise, because the image of the centre not holding has long made the poem a touchstone for anxious centrists. Shortly before running for president in 1968, Robert F Kennedy warned: “Indeed, we seem to fulfil the vision of Yeats.” In 1979, Labour grandee Roy Jenkins quoted it at the climax of his celebrated Dimbleby lecture about “the radical centre”, a speech that paved the way for the launch of the SDP. W. B. Yeats is the Irish author of the famed quote “I have spread my dreams under your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams”. Here are some other inspirational quotes about W. B. Yeats on love and the world.

Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild. With a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand." Also author of Irish Fairy and Folk Tales, 1918. Contributor to periodicals. A Poet to His Beloved has been published with musical score by Lowell Liebermann, T. Presser, 1994.Growing older, feeling out of touch with the new generation superseding you, feeling surplus to requirements, waiting for death. These are, perhaps, inevitable thoughts once we reach a certain age: they certainly came to Yeats in his later years, and he frequently wrote about growing old. This is partly what ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ is about. Poor men have grown to be rich men, And rich men grown to be poor again, And I am running to Paradise.” Adams, Hazard, The Book of Yeats' Vision: Romantic Modernism and Antithetical Tradition, University of Michigan Press, 1995.

Dictionary of Literary Biography, Gale, Volume 10: Modern British Dramatists, 1940-1945, 1982, Volume 19: British Poets, 1840-1914, 1983, Volume 98: Modern British Essayists, First Series, Gale, 1990.

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The Cat and the Moon" and Certain Poems (includes play The Cat and the Moon, first produced in Dublin at Abbey Theatre, May 9, 1926), Cuala Press, 1924.