A Book of Irish Verse - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0486414426 ISBN 13: 9780486414423

Publisher: Dover Publications, 2000

This treasury of over 100 poems focuses on Irish poets of the 18th and 19th centuries. In addition to the works of such well-known poets as Goldsmith, Sheridan, Moore, and Wilde, this compilation features the poetry of lesser-known writers who are nevertheless important in the history of Irish verse: James Clarence Mangan, Sir Samuel Ferguson, Aubrey de Vere, William Allingham, Douglas Hyde, Katharine Tynan Hinkson, Nora Hopper, and more. Original Introduction and Notes by W. B. Yeats. New Introduction by Denis Donoghue.

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William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). One of the great poets of the modern age. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Poetry in 1923.

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'Yeats was one of the 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

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