The Poetry of W.B. Yeats
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A century and a half since his birth, the Irish poet W.B. Yeats is one of the best-loved in the English language, known for his lyric poems such as \\u2018The Lake Isle of Innishfree\\u2019 or for romantic poems like \\u2018He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven.\\u2019 Throughout his literary career, though, Yeats wrote in a range of styles and on diverse subjects. His poems reflect his Irish nationalism, reinvent traditional genres, draw inspiration from Irish myth and legend, and push into innovative symbolism. Stephen Regan and Michael O\\u2019Neill take us on a journey through the varied landscape of Yeats\\u2019s verse.
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