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The Faber Yeats : Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney

By: W.B. Yeats
Selected by: Seamus Heaney

The Faber Yeats : Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney

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Published: July 2005

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In the "Poet to Poet" series, a contemporary poet advocates a poet of the past or present whom they have particularly admired.

By their selection of verses and their critical reactions, the selectors offer intriguing insights into their own work. Here, Seamus Heaney selects W.B. Yeats.

Introduction
The Indian upon God	p. 3
The Stolen Child	p. 4
Down by the Salley Gardens	p. 6
The Meditation of the Old Fisherman	p. 7
Cuchulain's Fight with the Sea	p. 8
The Rose of the World	p. 11
The Lake Isle of Innisfree	p. 12
When You Are Old	p. 13
Who Goes with Fergus?	p. 14
The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner	p. 15
To Ireland in the Coming Times	p. 16
The Host of the Air	p. 18
The Song of Wandering Aengus	p. 20
The Heart of the Woman	p. 21
He hears the Cry of the Sedge	p. 22
He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven	p. 23
He thinks of his Past Greatness when a Part of the Constellations of Heaven	p. 24
The Fiddler of Dooney	p. 25
The Folly of being Comforted	p. 26
Adam's Curse	p. 27
Red Hanrahan's Song about Ireland	p. 29
No Second Troy	p. 30
The Fascination of What's Difficult	p. 31
The Coming of Wisdom with Time	p. 32
Upon a House Shaken by the Land Agitation	p. 33
At Galway Races	p. 34
September 1913	p. 35
To a Friend whose Work has come to Nothing	p. 36
Paudeen	p. 37
To a Shade	p. 38
Running to Paradise	p. 39
Fallen Majesty	p. 40
The Cold Heaven	p. 41
The Magi	p. 42
The Wild Swans at Coole	p. 43
In Memory of Major Robert Gregory	p. 44
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death	p. 48
The Collar-Bone of a Hare	p. 49
The Fisherman	p. 50
Memory	p. 52
Her Praise	p. 53
Broken Dreams	p. 54
To a Squirrel at Kyle-na-no	p. 56
Ego Dominus Tuus	p. 57
Easter 1916	p. 60
Sixteen Dead Men	p. 63
The Second Coming	p. 64
To Be Carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee	p. 65
Sailing to Byzantium	p. 66
Meditations in Time of Civil War	p. 68
Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen	p. 75
Leda and the Swan	p. 80
Among School Children	p. 81
In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz	p. 84
A Dialogue of Self and Soul	p. 85
Coole Park and Ballylee, 1931	p. 88
For Anne Gregory	p. 90
Swift's Epitaph	p. 91
The Choice	p. 92
Mohini Chatterjee	p. 93
Byzantium	p. 94
Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop	p. 96
After Long Silence	p. 97
Mad as the Mist and Snow	p. 98
The Delphic Oracle upon Plotinus	p. 99
A Last Confession	p. 11
Ribh at the Tomb of Baile and Aillinn	p. 101
Whence had they Come?	p. 102
The Four Ages of Man	p. 103
Meru	p. 104
Lapis Lazuli	p. 105
An Acre of Grass	p. 107
What Then?	p. 108
Beautiful Loft Things	p. 109
The Curse of Cromwell	p. 110
The O'Rahilly	p. 112
Come Gather round me, Parnellites	p. 114
The Great Day	p. 115
The Pilgrim	p. 116
The Municipal Gallery Revisited	p. 117
From Under Ben Bulben	p. 120
Cuchulain Comforted	p. 121
The Statues	p. 122
News for the Delphic Oracle	p. 124
Long-legged Fly	p. 126
High Talk	p. 127
The Circus Animals' Desertion	p. 128
The Man and the Echo	p. 130
Politics	p. 132
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