Delphi Classics. 2012 William Butler Yeats ( 13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish Senator for two terms. Yeats was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and, along with Lady Gregory, Edward...
The National Library of Ireland has the world's largest collection of material related to the poet William Butler Yeats, including this copy of October Blast published by the Cuala Press. Yeats' great friend, the English author and designer Thomas Sturge Moore, designed the black ink publisher's device on the title page, "The Candle among the Waves". 8 of the poems in this...
The National Library of Ireland has the world's largest collection of material related to the poet William Butler Yeats, including this copy of The Cat and the Moon and Certain Poems. It belonged to the poet's wife, George Yeats, and features a unique manuscript revision of the printed version of the poem "Leda and the Swan" by WB Yeats himself. The Cat and the Moon is part of...
The National Library of Ireland has the world's largest collection of material related to the poet William Butler Yeats, including several copies of The Tower. This volume, often considered Yeats' single greatest achievement, was published by Macmillan in 1928, and contained 21 poems which had all appeared in print in various versions before being finally assembled here. The...
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