Author Description

This new selection from the complete work of William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), the greatest poet of his time, is the first to be published here in a paperback edition. Selected with an introduction and notes by Professor A. Norman Jeffares, the volume contains poems taken from the following books: "Crossways" (1889); "The Rose" (1893); "The Wind among the Reeds" (1899); "In the Seven Woods" (1904); "The Green Helmet and Other Poems" (1910); "Responsabilities" (1914); "The Wild Swans at Coole (1919); "Michael Robartes and the Dancer" (1921); "The Tower" (1928); "The Winding Stair and Other Poems" (1933); "Words for Music Perhaps; A Woman Young and Old; A Full Moon in March" (1935); and "Last Poems" (1936-1939).