W. B. Yeats

An illustrated collection of twenty-six notable poems by Yeats, with commentary and definitions of unfamiliar words. Includes an introduction about the poet's life and work.

When W.B. Yeats discovered Rabindranath Tagore's work in translation, he felt an intense kinship with a man, whose work was similarly grounded in spirituality and opposition to the British Empire. For the Irish poet, Tagore's poems were at once deeply personal and essentially universal, like a secret kept by all and shared regardless: "I have carried the manuscript of these translations about with me for days, reading it in railway trains, or on the...

Selected works by William Butler Yeats appear alongside original artwork depicting the major themes of the poems.