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William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats
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William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats is generally considered to be Ireland's greatest poet, living or dead, and one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923.

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Excerpt 1 from The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IX: Early Art
May 11, 2013
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Excerpt 1 from Selected Poems And Four Plays
Oct 23, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume I: The Poems
Sep 01, 2012
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Excerpt 1 from The Tower
Jul 21, 2012
The Winding Stair and Other Poems will be released on March 13, 2012 in eBook
Mar 13, 2012
The Winding Stair and Other Poems is now available in eBook
Mar 13, 2012
The Tower will be released on March 06, 2012 in
Mar 06, 2012
The Tower is now available in
Mar 06, 2012
The Yeats Reader, Revised Edition will be released on November 29, 2011 in eBook
Nov 29, 2011
The Yeats Reader, Revised Edition is now available in eBook
Nov 29, 2011
Selected Poems And Four Plays will be released on November 08, 2011 in
Nov 08, 2011
Selected Poems And Four Plays is now available in
Nov 08, 2011
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. VI: Prefaces an will be released on August 06, 2011 in Trade Paperback
Aug 06, 2011
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. VI: Prefaces an is now available in Trade Paperback
Aug 06, 2011
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. XII: John Sherm will be released on May 07, 2011 in Trade Paperback
May 07, 2011
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. XII: John Sherm is now available in Trade Paperback
May 07, 2011

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Huffington Post, May 14, 2013
...Wolfe. • Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, Robert Wright. • The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats, William Butler Yeats...
Individual.com, May 12, 2013
...British literature is that some of the best writers in the English language have been Irish: James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney. Few readers would think of adding C.S. Lewis to that list. But among the many delightful...
World News Network, May 12, 2013
...British literature is that some of the best writers in the English language have been Irish: James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney. Few readers would think of adding C.S. Lewis to that list. But among the many delightful...
Artdaily.org, May 11, 2013
...the previous highest price for one of her poems at auction of £1,400. Handwritten draft copies of William Butler Yeats poems ‘Are you content’ and ‘The spirit medium’ made £15,000. This surpassed the previous record of £5,000 for a Yeats...
Independent Publisher, May 8, 2013
...that a writer is also a visual artist, but many of the ones I know of (Elizabeth Bishop, William Butler Yeats, James Thurber, for instance) are dead. And so is Robert McGowan. I didn’t find this out until last night—I like to form my opinion of a...
Cheapflights.co.uk, May 8, 2013
...Looking out over the Nile from the Nobles Tombs at Aswan, Egypt. Photo: Charlie Phillips   Egypt – William Butler Yeats, Percy Shelley, Walt Whitman, etc Egypt has been a source of fascination for poets due to its plethora of ancient myths,...
Aras an Uachterain, May 7, 2013
...and culture brought him into contact with all the other great scholars, writers and national patriots such as William Butler Yeats, Arthur Griffith and Lady Gregory. The leaders of the 1916 Rising also feature in the collection – Padraig Pearse,...
Irish Times, May 11, 2013
...publicise the writer???s tour of America, sold for ??16,250 (estimate ??7,000- ??8,000). A photograph of William Butler Yeats by the American photographer Alice Boughton taken in New York in 1903 sold for ??18,750 (estimate ??4,000-??5,000). ...
Irish Times, May 11, 2013
...Portrait of William Butler Yeats by his father, John During the boom, Sotheby???s in London held dedicated sales of Irish art. Those were the days. Now the category has been merged and paintings...
Huffington Post, May 10, 2013
...my recap of the previous session here). It featured work by poets ranging, alphabetically, from Charles Lamb to William Butler Yeats, and as with last month's event, it offers fascinating insight into the value of great poetry. While John Keats stole...
UK Wired News, May 10, 2013
...1874, sold for 67,250. It had an estimate of 12,000 to 15,000. Draft copies of William Butler Yeats' poems, Are You Content? and The Spirit Medium, were sold for 15,000. A famous photograph of Wilde taken in New York and signed by the poet went...
Manchester Wired, May 10, 2013
...1874, sold for 67,250. It had an estimate of 12,000 to 15,000. Draft copies of William Butler Yeats' poems, Are You Content? and The Spirit Medium, were sold for 15,000. A famous photograph of Wilde taken in New York and signed by the poet went...
London Wired, May 10, 2013
...1874, sold for 67,250. It had an estimate of 12,000 to 15,000. Draft copies of William Butler Yeats' poems, Are You Content? and The Spirit Medium, were sold for 15,000. A famous photograph of Wilde taken in New York and signed by the poet went...
Cleveland Banner, May 10, 2013
...Bob Talbert - “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” — William Butler Yeats - “Teaching is the one profession that creates all other professions.” — Anonymous - “If a child can’t learn the way we...