Collected Poems

As well as being one of the major literary figures of the twentieth century, William Butler Yeats (1865¿1939) is the greatest lyric poet that Ireland has produced. He was the acknowledged leader of the Irish Literary Renaissance, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. His early lyrical poetry includes 'When You are Old¿, 'The Cloths of Heaven¿ and 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree¿ but, unusually for a poet, Yeats¿s later work surpasses the poems of his youth. This volume contains all the poems from the 1933 edition of Collected Poems, the last anthology to be published in the poet¿s lifetime.