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 · Perhaps one of his most famous poems, ‘The Stolen Child’, tops our list of the best W.B. Yeats poems of all time. Its major theme is the loss of innocence as a child grows up. Written in when Yeats was just 21, ‘The Stolen Child’ is one of his works that is strongly rooted in Irish mythology. The Tower, written by W.B. Yeats in , contains some of the poet’s best-known works, including “Leda and the Swan” and “Sailing to Byzantium.” The Tower was written during a pivotal time in Yeats’ artistic development. Yeats' first significant work was the Isle of Statues, published in the Dublin University Review and was followed by The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Stories in Here Yeats delves into the Irish Mythology of the Fenian Cycle. In , Yeats met Maude Gonne, who was to have a .

Seventy-five years after the death of William Butler Yeats, his brooding form still towers among the giants of world literature. The first of only four Irish Nobel literature laureates, he. The Yeats reader: a portable compendium of poetry, drama, and prose by W. B Yeats (Book) 21 editions published between 19in English and held by 1, WorldCat member libraries worldwide. A collection of over one hundred poems, plays, autobiographical and critical writings, and prose fiction by Irish author William Butler Yeats. Margaret Mills Harper, a coeditor of Yeat's "Vision" Papers (volumes 3 and 4), is the author of Wisdom of Two: The Spiritual and Literary Collaboration of George and W.B. Yeats, The Aristocracy of Art in Joyce and Wolfe, and numerous articles on Yeats, Irish literature, and literary modernism. She is Professor of English and Women's.

William Butler Yeats (), Nobel Prize winning Irish dramatist, author and poet wrote The Celtic Twilight (); Paddy Flynn is dead;.He was a great teller of tales, and unlike our common romancers, knew how to empty heaven, hell, and purgatory, faeryland and earth, to people his stories. He did not live in a shrunken world, but knew of no less ample circumstance than did Homer himself. Words 11 Pages. Wb Yeats. Written in and published in the poet’s collection The Rose, ‘When You Are Old’ is one of W.B. Yeats’ () most popular poems. As with many of his works, the poem is influenced by Greek Mythology. In this case, it is the legend of Helen of Troy, which inspires Yeats. W.B Yeats on Magic The Occult, edited by Claudio Rocchetti, Black Letter Press, The National Library of Ireland's exhibition, Yeats: The Life and Works of William Butler Yeats Works by W. B. Yeats at Project Gutenberg.