The S4N Pocket Poems Series presents classic long poems and books of poetry as they were originally presented, free of interpretation and notes, and in an attractive size that can be carried and read anywhere. William Butler Yeats was born in 1865 in Ireland, and his childhood and adolescence were spent in Ireland and England. His lifelong concerns are evident in his earliest poetry: history, mythology, and the occult; soon he also took up politics and drama, and he helped found the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. In 1922, he became a senator of the Irish Free State, and he won the Nobel Prize in 1923. The following poems represent his best work through 1921. Contents: Crossways (1889) The Song of the Happy Shepherd The Falling of the Leaves Ephemera The Madness of King Goll Down by the Salley Gardens The Rose (1893) To the Rose upon the Rood of Time Fergus and the Druid Cuchulain’s Fight with the Sea A Faery Song The Lake Isle of Innisfree When You are Old The White Birds Who goes with Fergus? The Two Trees The Wind Among the Reeds (1899) The Hosting of the Sidhe The Lover tells of the Rose in his Heart Into the Twilight The Song of Wandering Aengus The Song of the Old Mother A Poet to his Beloved To His Heart, bidding it have no Fear The Valley of the Black Pig He hears the Cry of the Sedge The Secret Rose Maid Quiet He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven He thinks of his Past Greatness when a Part of the Constellations of Heaven The Fiddler of Dooney In the Seven Woods (1904) In the Seven Woods Adam’s Curse Red Hanrahan’s Song About Ireland The Green Helmet & Other Poems (1910) No Second Troy A Drinking Song To a Poet, who would have me Praise certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine All Things can tempt Me Responsibilities (1914) “Pardon, old fathers” September 1913 The Mountain Tomb 1. To a Child dancing in the Wind 2. Two Years Later Fallen Majesty The Magi The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) The Wild Swans at Coole In Memory of Major Robert Gregory An Irish Airman foresees His Death Men improve with the Years To a Young Beauty The Scholars The Dawn The Fisherman The Hawk Her Praise A Thought from Propertius Broken Dreams Presences On being asked for a War Poem from “Upon a Dying Lady" Ego Dominus Tuus A Prayer on going into my House Michael Robartes & the Dancer (1921) Easter 1916 Sixteen Dead Men The Rose Tree On a Political Prisoner The Leaders of the Crowd The Second Coming A Prayer for my Daughter A Meditation in Time of War To be carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee "No one can doubt the genius of Yeats." - Harold Bloom "One of those 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 William Butler Yeats was born in 1865 in Ireland, and his childhood and adolescence were spent in Ireland and England. His lifelong concerns are evident in his earliest poetry: history, mythology, and the occult; soon he also took up politics and drama, and he helped found the Abbey Theatre in Dublin. In 1922, he became a senator of the Irish Free State, and he won the Nobel Prize in 1923. The following poems represent his best work through 1921.