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Title: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume I: The Poems : Revised Second Edition by William Butler Yeats ISBN: 0-684-80731-9 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 09 September, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.58 (12 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The intesity of W.B. Yeats
Comment: "Art has, I beleive, always gained in intensity by limitation."
Yeats was the great poet of the 20th century... For what makes Yeats a great poet is how alive he is at every moment, how vital and unpronouncement-like his poetry is.
He tried to write a "dyed and figured mystery" into each of his poems, and he captured the colors and people of life more vividly than any poet since Shakespeare...
It could have been written yesterday - and would have captured our world exactly.
Yeats speaks to each us anew, every time we read him. He knows that the world we live in, no matter what the time and place, is always filled with evil doers who are filled with passionate intensity, and that the world seems about to slip into a chaotic nightmare...
Rating: 5
Summary: A good edition of a great poet
Comment: There isn't much question whether Yeats was a great poet, just where on the all time great list he falls. Whether you call him the greatest poet of the 20th century, or the greatest since Wordsworth, Milton or Shakespeare, his accomplishments are clear.
Beyond that, why should anyone buy this edition as opposed to any of the other available? First, the collected poems gives you a sense of his development and interests, not just the highlights of his greates poems. Second, and more importantly, this edition is well-annotated. The notes are thorough without being unduly interpretive--they tell you what an allusion refers to, not how it affects the meaning of the poem. The notes aim to be useful to any reader, regardless of background. As a result, western readers will come across odd sounding notes such as "Jesus Christ is the founder of Christianity" or "Hamlet is the hero of William Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name." Still, you'll be thankful for such prosaic entries as they explain Irish myth and locate historical allusions. All in all, it's an edition that belongs on any poetry lover's shelf.
Rating: 3
Summary: w.b. yeats
Comment: The woods of Arcady are dead. So too are the kings of old, and yeats, and tennyson, and chesterton. Yeats' poetry displays a sense of a man writing out of inferiority, introspection, and self-hate. Yet, through it all, lies a somewhat simple quaint beauty of language, which does not begin to compete with the likes of, for example, campion, or poe, or other poet songtasters, but still holds its own. Other than Leda and the Swan, most of his poems are rather accessible, and dry for the passionate english scholars and post modern pseudoclassicists. Howevever, compared with today's trash, i.e. maya angelou, or the like, yeats stands atop ben nevis' bottom, and thrice the size of a fourth of wales.
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Title: Collected Poems, 1909-1962 by T.S. Eliot ISBN: 0151189781 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: 25 September, 1963 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson by Emily Dickinson ISBN: 0316184136 Publisher: Back Bay Books Pub. Date: 30 January, 1976 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiographies by William Butler Yeats ISBN: 0684853388 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Collected Poems: Auden by W.H. Auden ISBN: 0679731970 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 23 April, 1991 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: The Complete Poems of John Keats by John Keats ISBN: 0679601082 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 26 April, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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