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New York : Collier Books, 1986.
Description
A revised and expanded edition of the classic volume of Yeats' work, including the play The Death of Cuchulain. Many of the poems address the joys of youth, nature, growing old and the sadness of death; these are simply marvelous in their use of language and ideas.
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LibraryThing member TheGalaxyGirl
The poems I love in this book are some of my absolute favorites ever. But so many have to do with Irish independence and the Troubles, names I don't know and circumstances I'm not familiar with. So they are over my head or under my radar, or something. I love the idea of a poet choosing to be the
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voice for his people and trying to birth his nation. My heart is not the one he's aiming for. And that's ok, but...I feel like I have to sneak out the back of the theater. Show Less
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xl, 248 p.; 21 cm
ISBN
0020715609 / 9780020715603