The Winding Stair and Other Poems [Paperback]

William Butler Yeats (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 2004

BRING me to the blasted oak That I, midnight upon the stroke, (All find safety in the tomb.) May call down curses on his head Because of my dear Jack that's dead. Coxcomb was the least he said: The solid man and the coxcomb.

Product Details

• Paperback: 52 pages
• Publisher: Kessinger Publishing (June 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1419188070
• ISBN-13: 978-1419188077
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7.3 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,309,582 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars The late great Yeats, May 12, 2008

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This review is from: The Winding Stair and Other Poems (Paperback)

"The Winding Stair and Other Poems' was first published in 1933 five years after Yeats won his Nobel Prize. The volume contains some of Yeats best- known poems: 'A Dialogue of Self and Soul' 'For Anne Gregory'

'Coole Park' 'Byzantium'.

Here is a sample of the great poet's work, the second stanza of 'Quarrel for Old Age'

All lives that has lived:

So much is certain;

Old ages were not deceived:

Somewhere beyond the curtain

Of distorting days

Lives that lonely thing

That shone before these eyes

Targeted, trod like Spring.

Yeats great musicality, his mastery of a kind of lilting rhyme, his mixture of colloquial and the foul rag and bone shop of the heart with mystical and symbolic hidden dream- the memorable quality of many of his great lines and stanzas- all are on display in parts of this volume.