William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). One of the great poets of the modern age. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Poetry in 1923.

'Yeats was one of the few whose history is the history of their own time, who are a part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them.' - T.S. Eliot

• Introduction to the Routledge Classics Edition, Preface, Modern Irish Poetry, List of Poems, Anonymous, notes

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). One of the great poets of the modern age. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Poetry in 1923.

'Yeats was one of the few whose history is the history of their own time, who are a part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them.' - T.S. Eliot

• Introduction to the Routledge Classics Edition, Preface, Modern Irish Poetry, List of Poems, Anonymous, notes