I want a nice small collection of all of yeats best poems. Where would be a good place to start?
>>9298081
Buy the complete poems used for like 5 bux
I went out to the hazel wood,
Because a fire was in my head,
And cut and peeled a hazel wand,
And hooked a berry to a thread;
And when white moths were on the wing,
And moth-like stars were flickering out,
I dropped the berry in a stream
And caught a little silver trout.
When I had laid it on the floor
I went to blow the fire a-flame,
But something rustled on the floor,
And someone called me by my name:
It had become a glimmering girl
With apple blossom in her hair
Who called me by my name and ran
And faded through the brightening air.
Though I am old with wandering
Through hollow lands and hilly lands,
I will find out where she has gone,
And kiss her lips and take her hands;
And walk among long dappled grass,
And pluck till time and times are done,
The silver apples of the moon,
The golden apples of the sun.
>>9298081
The second coming.
>>9298107
https://www.abebooks.com/9780684807317/Collected-Poems-W.B-Yeats-William-0684807319/plp?cm_sp=plped-_-1-_-isbn
>>9298122
Awesome, thank you! I just ordered the hardcover.
I don't think Yeats has any Selected Poems, only Collected.
>>9298150
There's one for like 3 dollars called early poems by dover thrift edition with free shipping on amazon, but honestly when you can get a paperback for the exact same price on abebooks with the complete collection then that's obviously the best deal you could hope to find. Holy fuck I love abebooks.
dont get the penguin classics one with the frank miller cover
>>9298167
Yeats early poems are good but they're incredibly juvenile when compared to his older work. Once Yeats fleshes out his conception of time and the manner of history is he truly excellent. All that's worked out in A Vision but idk if that shit is worth reading in its entirety, I've only read excerpts.
Everyman's Poetry. Number 32
There must be literally dozens of selections under different publishers
>>9298150
There was a penguin selected poems.
Anyone know a cheap collection of william blake's poetry?
>>9298081
Scribner has a little paper facsimile edition of The Tower. Why not just get that? It's a strong collection.
>>9299347
Dover books has little paperbound copies of Innocence and Experience as well as the Marriage of Heaven and Hell-- maybe even the 4 Zoas, if memory setves. Cheap and lovely.