Bøger af William Butler Yeats

This brand new collection, impeccably edited by James Pethica, presents a comprehensive selection of Yeats's major contributions in poetry, drama, prose fiction, autobiography, and criticism.

The Wild Swans at Coole is the name of two collections of poetry by W. B. Yeats, published in 1917 and 1919. The Wild Swans at Coole, a collection of twenty-nine poems and the play At the Hawk's Well, was first published by the Cuala Press in November 1917. The title poem of the collection had first appeared in the Little Review in June of that year. Macmillan (London and New York) republished the poems in March 1919 without the play but with an additional seventeen poems. The completed volume, also called The Wild Swans at Coole, represents the "middle stage" of Yeats' writing and is concerned, amongst other themes, with Irish nationalism and the creation of an Irish aesthetic.

Since the dawn of language, poets have celebrated the majestic immensity of Earth’s oceans, the powerful waters that create and destroy, the intense drama and soothing gentleness of waves, the dangerous voyages to distant shores, and the indelible sensory memories set on shifting sandy beaches drenched in sunshine.<br><br>This collection joins the verse of renowned poets with the voices of select modern writers, all inspired by the ceaseless splendor of the sea.<br><br>Includes a reading guide for teachers and book groups, and biographies of the poets inside.<br><br><br>Classic <br><br>Dante Alighieri<br>Joseph Auslander<br>Thomas Lovell Beddoes<br>Elizabeth Barrett Browning<br>George Shepard Burleigh<br>Lord Byron<br>Bliss Carman<br>Stephen Crane<br>H. D.<br>Emily Dickinson<br>A. E.<br>Ralph Waldo Emerson<br>Charlotte Perkins Gilman<br>Arthur Guiterman<br>Thomas Hardy<br>Sadakichi Hartmann<br>Nathaniel Hawthorne<br>Rudyard Kipling<br>Thomas S. Jones, Jr.<br>D. H. Lawrence<br>Eugene Lee-Hamilton<br>Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<br>John Masefield<br>Edna St. Vincent Millay<br>Marianne Moore<br>Thomas Moore<br>John Boyle O’Reilly<br>Eva L. Ogden<br>Ezra Pound<br>Rainer Maria Rilke<br>Dante Gabriel Rossetti<br>Alan Seeger<br>William Shakespeare<br>John Sterling<br>Wallace Stevens<br>Robert Louis Stevenson<br>Sara Teasdale<br>Alfred, Lord Tennyson<br>Walt Whitman<br>Oscar Wilde<br>William Wordsworth<br>William Butler Yeats<br><br><br>Current<br><br>Joel Allegretti<br>Carol Alena Aronoff<br>Janet Barry<br>Sidney Bending<br>Ben Bever<br>Jenny Blackford<br>Eloise Bruce <br>R. T. Castleberry<br>Bill Cushing<br>Lauren Davis <br>Elizabeth Ruth Deyro<br>Agnieszka Filipek<br>Marj Hahne<br>David Holper<br>Gene Hult<br>Clarissa Jakobsons<br>Marjorie Maddox<br>Paul Magrs<br>Lucinda Marshall<br>Stephen McGuinness<br>Leah Mueller<br>Ciarán Parkes<br>Winston Plowes<br>Suzanne S. Rancourt<br>Meg Smith<br>Alec Solomita<br>Alison Stone<br>Larry D. Thacker <br>Lynne Viti<br>

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) war ein irischer Dichter. Er gilt als einer der bedeutendsten englischsprachigen Schriftsteller des 20. Jahrhunderts. 1923 erhielt er den Literaturnobelpreis. Yeats schrieb Prosa, Lyrik, Dramen und Essays. 1923 wurde ihm der Nobelpreis für Literatur verliehen "für seine stets von hoher Eingebung getragenen Dichtungen, die in vollendeter Gestalt das Wesen seines Volkes zum Ausdruck bringen." Seine Versdramen sind zunächst dem Stil Shakespeares verpflichtet, und seine frühe Lyrik wurde von Charles Baudelaire und Paul Verlaine beeinflusst. In romantischen Stimmungsbildern schilderte er die alten Kelten und ihre Mythen, wie er sie sah. Seine Werke dieser Zeit sind gekennzeichnet von verträumter Atmosphäre und irischer Folklore aus der Sammlung seiner Freundin und Vertrauten Lady Gregory. Inhalt: • Einleitung des Übersetzers • Die Gesetzestafeln • Die Anbetung der heiligen drei Könige • Der Glücklichste unter den Dichtern • Die Philosophie in den Dichtungen Shelleys • William Blake und die Phantasie • William Blake und seine Illustrationen zur Göttlichen Komödie • Das keltische Element in der Literatur • Zum Psalter sprechen • Der Leib des Vaters Christian Rosenkreuz

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Ireland is home to some of the world's most enchanting myths and tales. But many of these stories would have been lost if they hadn't been recorded and written down. Poet and Nobel laureate William Butler Yeats was one of these fortunate witnesses. In "The Celtic Twilight," originally published in 1893, he collected some of the most delightful myths and folktales of his native land.