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A Book of Irish Verse

2nd Edition

By W.B. Yeats

Introduction by John Banville

Published July 11th 2002 by Routledge – 208 pages

Series: Routledge Classics

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    In 1895 the thirty-year-old W.B. Yeats, already established as one of Ireland's leading poets and folklorists, published this outstanding collection of Irish verse as part of his campaign to establish a tradition of Irish poetry fit for the dawn of a new age in Ireland's history. This Routledge Classics edition, complete with a specially commissioned introduction by acclaimed writer and critic John Banville, is essential reading for all who appreciate good literature.

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    'Yeats was one of the few whose history is the history of their own time, who are a part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them.' - T.S. Eliot

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    William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). One of the great poets of the modern age. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Poetry in 1923.

    Name: A Book of Irish Verse: 2nd Edition (Paperback) – Routledge 
    Description: By W.B. YeatsIntroduction by John Banville. In 1895 the thirty-year-old W.B. Yeats, already established as one of Ireland's leading poets and folklorists, published this outstanding collection of Irish verse as part of his campaign to establish a tradition of Irish poetry fit for the dawn...
    Categories: Literature Primary Texts & Anthologies, Poetry, Irish Literature