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　　The Wordsworth Poetry Library comprises the works of the greatest English-speaking poets, as well as many lesser-known poets. Each collection has a specially commissioned introduction.
　　This volume includes all of Yeats's published poetry, from the hauntingly beautiful early lyrics by which he is still best remembered, to the later work which some argue put beyond question his status as one of the foremost poets of his age.

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　　William Butler Yeats, whom many consider this century'sgreatest poet, began as a bard of the Celtic Twilight, revivinglegends and Rosicrucian symbols. By the early 1900s, however, hewas moving away from plush romanticism, his verse morphing from theincantatory rhythms of "I will arise and go now, and go toInnisfree" into lyrics "as cold and passionate as the dawn." Atevery stage, however, Yeats plays a multiplicity of poetic roles.There is the romantic lover of "When You Are Old" and "A Poet toHis Beloved" ("I bring you with reverent Hands / The books of mynumberless dreams..."). And there are the far more bittercelebrations of Maud Gonne, who never accepted his love and engagedin too much politicking for his taste: "Why should I blame her thatshe filled my days / With misery, or that she would of late / Havetaught to ignorant men most violent ways, / Or hurled the littlestreets upon the great, / Had they but courage equal to desire?"There is also the poet of conscience--and confrontation. His 1931"Remorse for Intemperate Speech" ends: "Out of Ireland have wecome. / Great hatred, little room, / Maimed us at the start. / Icarried from my mother's womb / A fanatic heart."

William Butler Yeats, whom many consider this century's
greatest poet, began as a bard of the Celtic Twilight, reviving
legends and Rosicrucian symbols. By the early 1900s, however, he
was moving away from plush romanticism, his verse morphing from the
incantatory rhythms of "I will arise and go now, and go to
Innisfree" into lyrics "as cold and passionate as the dawn." At
every stage, however, Yeats plays a multiplicity of poetic roles.
There is the romantic lover of "When You Are Old" and "A Poet to
His Beloved" ("I bring you with reverent Hands / The books of my
numberless dreams..."). And there are the far more bitter
celebrations of Maud Gonne, who never accepted his love and engaged
in too much politicking for his taste: "Why should I blame her that
she filled my days / With misery, or that she would of late / Have
taught to ignorant men most violent ways, / Or hurled the little
streets upon the great, / Had they but courage equal to desire?"
There is also the poet of conscience--and confrontation. His 1931
"Remorse for Intemperate Speech" ends: "Out of Ireland have we
come. / Great hatred, little room, / Maimed us at the start. / I
carried from my mother's womb / A fanatic heart." 
　　Yeats was to explore several more sides of himself, and of
Ireland, before his Last Poems of 1938-39. Many are difficult, some
snobbish, others occult and spiritualist. As Brendan Kennelly
writes, Yeats "produces both poppycock and sublimity in verse,
sometimes closely together." On the other hand, many prophetic
masterworks are poppycock-free--for example, "The Second Coming"
("Turning and turning in the widening gyre / The falcon cannot hear
the falconer; / Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; / Mere
anarchy is loosed upon the world...") and such inquiries into
inspiration as "Among School Children" ("O body swayed to music, O
brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance?").
And at his best, Yeats extends the meaning of love poetry beyond
the obviously romantic: love becomes a revolutionary emotion,
attaching the poet to friends, history, and the passionate life of
the mind. --Kerry Fried

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目　　录

Lyrical
CROSSWAYS- 1889
　The Song of the Happy Shepherd
　The Sad Shepherd
　The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes
　Anashuya and Vijaya
　The Indian upon God
　The Indian to His Love
　The Falling of the Leaves
　Ephemera
　The Madness of King Goll
　The Stolen Child
　To an Isle in the Water
　Down by the Salley Gardens

Lyrical 
CROSSWAYS- 1889 
　The Song of the Happy Shepherd 
　The Sad Shepherd 
　The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes 
　Anashuya and Vijaya 
　The Indian upon God 
　The Indian to His Love 
　The Falling of the Leaves 
　Ephemera 
　The Madness of King Goll 
　The Stolen Child 
　To an Isle in the Water 
　Down by the Salley Gardens 
　The Meditation of the Old Fisherman 
　The Ballad of Father O'Hart 
　The Ballad of Moll Magee 
　The Ballad of the Foxhunter 
THE ROSE - 1893 
　To the Rose upon the Rood of Time 
　Fergus and the Druid 
　Cuchulain's Fight with the Sea 
　The Rose of the World 
　The Rose of Peace 
　The Rose of Battle 
　A Faery Song 
　…… 
THE WIND AMONG THE REEDS-1899 
IN THE SEVE WOODS-1904 
THE GREEN HELMET AND OTHER POEMS-1910 
RESPONSIBILITIES-1914 
THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE-1919 
MICHAEL ROBARTES AND THE DANCER-1921 
THE TOWER-1928 
THE WINDING STTAIR AND OTHER POEMS-1933 
FROM A FULL MOON IN MARCH-1935 
LAST POEMS 1936-1939 
Narrative and Dramatic

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