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The Countess Kathleen And Various Legends And Lyrics
''The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics'' (1892) is the second poetry collection of W. B. Yeats.Finneran, Richard J.. Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies'. United Kingdom, University of Michigan Press, 1998. It includes the play ''The Countess Cathleen'' and group of shorter lyrics that Yeats would later collect under the title of ''The Rose'' in his ''Collected Poems''. This volume includes several of Yeats' most popular poems, including "The Lake Isle of Innisfree", "A Faery Song", "When You are Old", and "Who Goes with Fergus". Many of these poems also reflect Yeats' new-discovered interest in alchemy and esotericism. Contents # Preface # The Countess Kathleen # To the Rose upon the Rood of Time # Fergus and the Druid # The Rose of the World # The Peace of the Rose # The Death of Cuchullin # The White Birds # Father Gilligan # Father O'Hart # When You Are Old # The Sorrow of Love # The Ballad of the Old Foxhunter # A Fairy Song # The Pity o ...
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1892 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * William Butler Yeats founds the National Literary Society in Dublin. Works published Australia United Kingdom * A. C. Benson, ''Le Cahier Jaune''Cox, Michael, editor, ''The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature'', Oxford University Press, 2004, * Wilfred Seawen Blunt, ''Esther, Love Lyrics, and Natalia's'' * Austin Dobson, ''The Ballad of Beau Brocade, and Other Poems of the XVIIIth Century'' * Rudyard Kipling, '' Barrack-Room Ballads, and Other Verses'', including " Gunga Din," " Danny Deever", " Fuzzy-Wuzzy", " Mandalay" and " Gentlemen-Rankers", first book publication, Methuen (see also ''Barrack-Room Balads, second series'' in 1896) * Richard Le Gallienne, ''English Poems'' * George Meredith: ** ''Modern Love: Aa Reprint'' (see ''Modern Love'', 1862) ** ''Poems'' * Arthur Symons, ''Silhouettes'' * Alfred Tennyson: ** ''The ...
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The Countess Cathleen
''The Countess Cathleen'' is a verse drama by William Butler Yeats in blank verse (with some lyrics). It was dedicated to Maud Gonne, the object of his affections for many years. Editions and revisions The play was first published in 1892 in '' The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics'' (the spelling was changed to "Cathleen" in all future editions). Its text underwent many changes until the final version performed in 1911 and published in 1912 ("a complete revision to make it suitable for performance at the Abbey Theatre" and "all but a new play", according to Yeats). The variorum editor, Russell K. Alspach, remarks, "The revision for the second printing, ''Poems'' (1895), was so drastic that intelligible collation was virtually impossible." The tendency of Yeats's changes between 1892 and 1911 has been summarized as a move "decidedly away from an almost farcical realism and tentatively toward the austere, suggestive mode of the dance plays." Synopsis The play ...
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To The Rose Upon The Rood Of Time
"To the Rose upon the Rood of Time" is poem by W. B. Yeats that was published in ''The Rose'' in 1893. The poem is one of many early Yeatsian lyrical poems which use the symbol of the rose. The poem consists of twelve rhyming couplets in iambic pentameter. Text Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days! Come near me, while I sing the ancient ways: Cuchulain battling with the bitter tide; The Druid, grey, wood-nurtured, quiet eyed, Who cast round Fergus dreams, and ruin untold; And thine own sadness, whereof stars, grown old In dancing silver-sandalled on the sea, Sing in their high and lonely melody. Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate, I find under the boughs of love and hate, In all poor foolish things that live a day, Eternal beauty wandering on her way. Come near, come near, come near—Ah, leave me still A little space for the rose-breath to fill! Lest I no more hear common things that crave; The weak worm hiding down in its small cave, The field-mouse running b ...
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The Lake Isle Of Innisfree
"The Lake Isle of Innisfree" is a twelve-line poem comprising three quatrains, written by William Butler Yeats in 1888 and first published in the '' National Observer'' in 1890. It was reprinted in '' The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics'' in 1892 and as an illustrated Cuala Press Broadside in 1932. "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" exemplifies the style of the Celtic Revival: it is an attempt to create a form of poetry that was Irish in origin rather than one that adhered to the standards set by English poets and critics. It received critical acclaim in the United Kingdom and France. The poem is featured in Irish passports. Background Lake Isle of Innisfree is an uninhabited island within Lough Gill, in Ireland, near which Yeats spent his summers as a child. Yeats describes the inspiration for the poem coming from a "sudden" memory of his childhood while walking down Fleet Street in London in 1888. He writes, "I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens ...
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List Of Works By William Butler Yeats
This is a list of all works by Irish poet and dramatist W. B. Yeats (1865–1939), winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature and a major figure in 20th-century literature. Works sometimes appear twice if parts of new editions or significantly revised. Posthumous editions are also included if they are the first publication of a new or significantly revised work. Years are linked to corresponding "year in poetry" articles for works of poetry, and "year in literature" articles for other works. 1880s * 1885 – "Song of the Fairies" & "Voices," poems in the ''Dublin University Review'' (March) * 1886 – '' Mosada'', verse play * 1888 – ''Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry'' * 1889 – ''Crossways'' * 1889 – '' The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems'', includes "The Wanderings of Oisin", " The Song of the Happy Shepherd", "The Stolen Child" and " Down by the Salley Gardens" 1890s * 1890 – "The Lake Isle of Innisfree", poem first publish ...
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1892 Books
Year 189 ( CLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Silanus and Silanus (or, less frequently, year 942 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 189 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * Plague (possibly smallpox) kills as many as 2,000 people per day in Rome. Farmers are unable to harvest their crops, and food shortages bring riots in the city. China * Liu Bian succeeds Emperor Ling, as Chinese emperor of the Han dynasty. * Dong Zhuo has Liu Bian deposed, and installs Emperor Xian as emperor. * Two thousand eunuchs in the palace are slaughtered in a violent purge in Luoyang, the capital of Han. By topic Arts and sciences * Galen publishes his ''"Treatise on the various temperaments"'' (aka ''On the Elements According to Hippocrate ...
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Irish Poetry Collections
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