William Butler Yeats

Eine Übersetzerin und vier der namhaftesten Lyriker in deutscher Sprache haben sich einer gewaltigen Aufgabe gestellt: Sie haben sämtliche Gedichte, die Yeats in mehr als 50 Jahren geschrieben hat, neu übersetzt. Damit liegt zum ersten Mal dieses reiche und in seiner poetischen Vielfältigkeit nicht zu überbietende lyrische Werk eines der bedeutendsten Dichter der europäischen Literatur in kongenialen Übersetzungen komplett auf Deutsch vor. Ein Meilenstein in der Veröffentlichungsgeschichte des genialen irischen Dichters. Er beschwor die keltische Dämmerung und segelte in seinen Träumen nach Byzanz, er beutete sein Liebesunglück literarisch aus und lebte in einer eigenen esoterischen Welt. Er gründete ein Nationaltheater, besang den Freiheitskampf seines Volkes und wurde Senator des irischen Freistaats: William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) ist eine der vielseitigsten und widersprüchlichsten Gestalten der europäischen Moderne und unbestritten einer der ganz großen Dichter des 20. Jahrhunderts. In den fünfzig Jahren seines Schaffens haben ihn alle großen Zeitgenossen bewundert, für nachwachsende Lyrikergenerationen wurde er immer wieder zu einem der ihren. 1923 wurde er mit dem Nobelpreis für Literatur ausgezeichnet. Sein reiches, wildes und mit äußerstem Formwillen geschriebenes lyrisches Werk liegt nun erstmals vollständig auf Deutsch vor ? in komplett neu erstellten Übersetzungen. Dieser gewaltigen Aufgabe haben sich Marcel Beyer, Mirko Bonn?, Gerhard Falkner und Norbert Hummelt, vier der besten deutschsprachigen Lyriker unserer Zeit, gestellt, dazu die Übersetzerin Christa Schuenke, die für ihre Übertragung der Sonette William Shakespeares gefeiert worden ist. Ihre kongenialen Übersetzungen treffen den Ton, den Yeats angeschlagen hat, in unserer heutigen Sprache. 35 Jahre nachdem William Butler Yeats zum ersten Mal im Luchterhand Verlag erschien, ist jetzt mit dem ?deutschen Yeats? die Lebenssumme des großen Lyrikers endlich hierzulande zugänglich ? ein Meilenstein in der Veröffentlichungsgeschichte dieses großen irischen Lyrikers.

Ireland is home to some of the world's most enchanting myths and tales. But many of these stories would have been lost if they hadn't been recorded and written down. Poet and Nobel laureate William Butler Yeats was one of these fo

A facsimile edition of the classic collection of twenty-one poems, first published in 1928, includes such acclaimed works as "Leda and the Swan," "Sailing to Byzantium," and "Among School Children." Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

Throughout his long life, William Butler Yeats -- Irish writer and premier lyric poet in English in this century -- produced important works in every literary genre, works of astonishing range, energy, erudition, beauty, and skill. His early poetry is memorable and moving. His poems and plays of middle age address the human condition with language that has entered our vocabulary for cataclysmic personal and world events. The writings of his final years offer wisdom, courage, humor, and sheer technical virtuosity. T. S. Eliot pronounced Yeats "the greatest poet of our time -- certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language" and "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." The Yeats Reader is the most comprehensive single volume to display the full range of Yeats's talents. It presents more than one hundred and fifty of his best-known poems -- more than any other compendium -- plus eight plays, a sampling of his prose tales, and excerpts from his published autobiographical and critical writings. In addition, an appendix offers six early texts of poems that Yeats later revised. Also included are selections from the memoirs left unpublished at his death and complete introductions written for a projected collection that never came to fruition. These are supplemented by unobtrusive annotation and a chronology of the life. Yeats was a protean writer and thinker, and few writers so thoroughly reward a reader's efforts to essay the whole of their canon. This volume is an excellent place to begin that enterprise, to renew an old acquaintance with one of world literature's great voices, or to continue a lifelong interest in the phenomenon of literary genius.

"Criticism" includes twenty-four interpretive essays by T. S. Eliot, Daniel Albright, Douglas Archibald, Harold Bloom, George Bornstein, Elizabeth Cullingford, Paul de Man, Richard Ellman, R. F. Foster, Stephen Gwynn, Seamus Heaney, Marjorie Howes, John Kelly, Declan Kiberd, Lucy McDiarmid, Michael North, Thomas Parkinson, Marjorie Perloff, James Pethica, Jahan Ramazani, Ronald Schuchard, Michael J. Sidnell, Anita Sokolsky, and Helen Vendler. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.

Fast alle Liebesgedichte von William Butler Yeats sind an die schöne Schauspielerin und Agitatorin Maud Gonne gerichtet, die der Dichter sein Leben lang vergötterte, ohne von ihr erhört zu werden. Die irische Unabhängigkeit, die Maud Gonne mit feurigen Vorträgen betrieb, war ihr wichtiger als die Erfüllung dieser Liebe. Yeats stürmische Werbung läßt sich von Gedicht zu Gedicht verfolgen.

A collection of three classic Irish one-act plays, as produced on the RSC's highly successful 1998 tour. Richly passionate, poetic and violent, the plays reveal our fascination with death and transendance. Features the plays Riders to the Sea, The Shadow of the Glen and Purgatory, with an introduction by Declan Kiberd.

Since its first appearance in 1962, M. L. Rosenthal's classic selection of Yeats's poems and plays has attracted hundreds of thousands of readers. This newly revised edition includes 211 poems and 4 plays. It adds The Words Upon the Window-Pane, one of Yeats's most startling dramatic works in its realistic use of a seance as the setting for an eerily powerful reenactment of Jonathan Swift's rigorous idealism, baffling love relationships, and tragic madness. The collection profits from recent scholarship that has helped to establish Yeats's most reliable texts, in the order set by the poet himself. And his powerful lyrical sequences are amply represented, culminating in the selection from Last Poems and Two Plays, which reaches its climax in the brilliant poetic plays The Death of Cuchulain and Purgatory. Scholars, students, and all who delight in Yeats's varied music and sheer quality will rejoice in this expanded edition. As the introduction observes, "Early and late he has the simple, indispensable gift of enchanting the ear.... He was also the poet who, while very much of his own day in Ireland, spoke best to the people of all countries. And though he plunged deep into arcane studies, his themes are most clearly the general ones of life and death, love and hate, man's condition, and history's meanings. He began as a sometimes effete post-Romantic, heir to the pre-Raphaelites, and then, quite naturally, became a leading British Symbolist; but he grew at last into the boldest, most vigorous voice of this century." Selected Poems and Four Plays represents the essential achievement of the greatest twentieth-century poet to write in English.

Breathtaking in range, The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats includes all of the poems authorized by Yeats for inclusion and encompasses the entire arc of his career: reworkings of ancient Irish myths and legends, meditations on youth and old age, whimsical songs of love, and somber poems of life in a nation torn by war and uprising. The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats includes all of the poems authorized by Yeats for inclusion in his standard canon. Breathtaking in range, it encompasses the entire arc of his career, from luminous reworkings of ancient Irish myths and legends to passionate meditations on the demands and rewards of youth and old age, from exquisite, occasionally whimsical songs of love, nature, and art to somber and angry poems of life in a nation torn by war and uprising. In observing the development of rich and recurring images and themes over the course of his body of work, we can trace the quest of this century's greatest poet to unite intellect and artistry in a single magnificent vision. Revised and corrected, this edition includes Yeats's own notes on his poetry, complemented by explanatory notes from esteemed Yeats scholar Richard J. Finneran. The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats is the most comprehensive edition of one of the world's most beloved poets available in paperback.

It is harsh exercise to put into cold print and to bare all the faults of such subjective things as letters written 'in great haste' in the middle of a busy active life, and it requires the kindness and tolerance of the reader. Nuances in the handwriting, or insertion of omitted words and afterthoughts, or positioning of postscripts, are all lost in printing; while irregularities in spelling, punctuation, abbreviations and repetitious phrases are exaggerated. The few of Yeat's letters to Maud Gonne that have survived were scattered through old bundles of correspondence. The only two kept particularly safe were together in an envelope, one marked 'last letter from W. B. Y.' which was written on 16 June 1938 from Steyning, Sussex, and the other a letter concerning the death of William Sharp which he had asked her to keep safely and which she must have put in a separate place, and so it survived. The letters he received from her before her marriage of 10 and 24 February 1903, had been very crumpled as if carried around in his pocket and reread many times, then smoothed out to be put away with the others.