{"title":"W. B. Yeats","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"selected-poems-2","title":"Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eW. B. Yeats’s poetry is a world of shifting light and shadow, where Irish landscapes, ancient legends and private longings meet the turbulent currents of modern history. From the incantatory beauty of his early Celtic twilight to the austere, startling clarity of his later work, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e traces the evolution of one of the twentieth century’s defining poetic voices. Ireland provides both a physical setting and an imaginative homeland, populated by mythic heroes, revolutionary figures, ageing lovers and solitary dreamers. Across these poems, Yeats explores desire, mortality, national identity, spiritual transformation and the uneasy passage of time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA central figure in the Irish Literary Revival and a Nobel laureate in 1923, Yeats continually reinvented his art, moving from Romantic symbolism towards a more modern, unsparing intensity. His poetry reflects the political upheavals of Ireland, his fascination with mysticism and the occult, and his lifelong preoccupation with the relationship between art and history. Rather than presenting a fixed poetic style, a selection of his work reveals a restless imagination in constant renewal, capable of extraordinary tenderness and formidable intellectual force. The result is an essential encounter with a poet whose vision helped shape modern literature while remaining deeply rooted in Irish myth, memory and place.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— W. B. Yeats, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Second Coming\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“The fascination of Yeats’s poetry is that it is always changing.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Richard Ellmann, literary critic and Yeats biographer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64025725632842,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"the-celtic-twilight","title":"The Celtic Twilight","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst published in 1893, W. B. Yeats’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Celtic Twilight\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a lyrical journey into the folklore, spiritual imagination and oral traditions of rural Ireland. Drawing on stories gathered from local people, Yeats evokes a world inhabited by fairies, ghosts, prophetic visions and mysterious presences, where the boundary between the natural and supernatural remains delicately uncertain. Rather than treating these beliefs as quaint survivals of a disappearing past, he approaches them with curiosity and reverence, attentive to the poetry and imaginative richness of the people who preserve them. The Irish countryside becomes a place of enchantment, where everyday encounters open onto older, stranger ways of understanding the world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA formative work of the Irish Literary Revival, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Celtic Twilight\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e helped establish Yeats’s lifelong engagement with Irish myth, national identity and the unseen dimensions of experience. Its prose moves between folklore, personal reflection and literary reverie, revealing the early development of the symbolic imagination that would later define his poetry. Both a record of vanishing traditions and an act of creative transformation, the book captures Ireland at a moment when cultural memory was becoming central to the search for a modern national literature. Its enduring appeal lies in Yeats’s ability to make the mysterious feel intimate, allowing ancient beliefs to shimmer within the ordinary landscape.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— W. B. Yeats, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Celtic Twilight\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Celtic Twilight\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“The Celtic Twilight can be seen as a Yeatsian ‘antithetical’ cultural history, an invented history relying as much upon creative vision as it does upon established facts or academic rigour.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e— Nicholas Beauchesne, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRoutledge Encyclopedia of Modernism\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64025772622154,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}]}],"url":"https:\/\/thelamppostparis.com\/fr\/collections\/w-b-yeats.oembed","provider":"The Lamp-Post Library \u0026 Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}