Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

This volume gathers Yeats's lyric and narrative poetry from the 1880s through the 1930s. Early poems draw on Irish legend, the sidhe, and the landscapes of Sligo. Later work turns to the theatre, a private occult system, the Easter Rising, civil war, and the ageing body. Recurring figures include Cuchulain, a beloved who refuses the speaker, Crazy Jane, and the tower at Thoor Ballylee. The collection moves from the Celtic Twilight manner through a harder, more public diction. It is a life's verse in sequence, not a single story: love lyrics, political poems, and metaphysical sequences placed side by side.

Quarter bound in brown leather with brown cloth boards printed with a repeat pattern in cream by Brockway. Cream endleaves. Brown slipcase.