W. B. Yeats

5 books on BookJumpr, mentioned 8 times in other books.

Books by W. B. Yeats

On James Baldwin on Cuchulain Comforted: “Yeats wrote a poem called "Cuchulain Comforted," which began with a series of statements free of metaphor”
Hitch-22 on Man and the Echo: “He tried to cope with the disturbing idea in his poem "Man and the Echo": Did that play of mine send out Certain men the English shot?”
How to Read and Why on Man and the Echo: “wrote the powerful "The Man and the Echo," as one of his death poems.”
Conversations with Friends on The Lake Isle of Innisfree: “I practically had to stop him reciting ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’ in the bar.”
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea on The Scholars: “Yeats' great poem 'The Scholars', whose lines were 'rhymed out in love's despair'”
The Power of Myth on The Second Coming: “Grateful acknowledgment is made... for permission to quote from "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats.”
Slouching Towards Bethlehem on The Second Coming: “Book epigraph, quoted in full at the front of the book; candidate context captured the line "The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out"”
A Promised Land on The Second Coming: “Between Republican attacks and Democratic complaints, I was reminded of the Yeats poem "The Second Coming": My supporters lacked all conviction, while my opponents were full of passionate intensity.”