* Like New: An apparently unread copy in perfect condition. A brand-new, unused, unread copy in perfect condition. We based our evaluation of book condition on the following criteria: He began as a sometimes effete post-Romantic, heir to the pre-Raphaelites, and then, quite naturally, became a leading British Symbolist but he grew at last into the boldest, most vigorous voice of this century." Selected Poems and Four Plays represents the essential achievement of the greatest twentieth-century poet to write in English. And though he plunged deep into arcane studies, his themes are most clearly the general ones of life and death, love and hate, man's condition, and history's meanings. As the introduction observes, "Early and late he has the simple, indispensable gift of enchanting the ear.He was also the poet who, while very much of his own day in Ireland, spoke best to the people of all countries. Scholars, students, and all who delight in Yeats's varied music and sheer quality will rejoice in this expanded edition. And his powerful lyrical sequences are amply represented, culminating in the selection from Last Poems and Two Plays, which reaches its climax in the brilliant poetic plays The Death of Cuchulain and Purgatory. The collection profits from recent scholarship that has helped to establish Yeats's most reliable texts, in the order set by the poet himself.
It adds The Words Upon the Window-Pane, one of Yeats's most startling dramatic works in its realistic use of a seance as the setting for an eerily powerful reenactment of Jonathan Swift's rigorous idealism, baffling love relationships, and tragic madness. This newly revised edition includes 211 poems and 4 plays. Rosenthal's classic selection of Yeats's poems and plays has attracted hundreds of thousands of readers.
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