The Major Works: Including Poems, Plays and Critical Prose

Author: W.B. Yeats

This edition was first published in the Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a combination of Yeats’s poetry and prose – all the major poems, complemented by plays, critical writings, and letters – to give the essence of his work and thinking. W. B. Yeats was born in 1865, only 38 years after the death of William Blake, an….Read More

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