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The Winding Stair and Other Poems

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"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.