{"product_id":"2026100009222-secondhand-the-collected-poems-of-w-b-yeats","title":"The Collected Poems Of W. B. Yeats","description":"\u003cp\u003eEdition: 4th pr.,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Fair\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and corners\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFew poets have shaped the English literary canon with the visionary force of William Butler Yeats, and The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats stands as the definitive testament to a career that spanned decades, movements, and the very transformation of modern verse. This landmark anthology gathers the full breadth of Yeats's poetic output — from the dreamy, mythologically rich early works steeped in Irish folklore and the Celtic Revival, to the fiercely intellectual and symbolically dense later poems that wrestle with mysticism, political upheaval, aging, and the eternal tension between the spiritual and the physical world.\n\nYeats writes with an authority that is at once incantatory and precise, wielding recurring symbols — the gyre, the rose, the tower — to construct a private cosmology that feels both deeply personal and universally resonant. His verse chronicles the turbulent birth of modern Ireland, the ache of unrequited love for Maud Gonne, and a lifelong obsession with the occult and esoteric systems of belief, all rendered in language of extraordinary music and craft. Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923, Yeats remains one of the supreme voices of the twentieth century — and this 1937 Macmillan edition invites the reader to ask: what does it mean to seek beauty in a world perpetually on the brink of chaos?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49269348532443,"sku":"2026100009222-SECONDHAND","price":50.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/3294b5e4-8030-40f5-b019-aa02c8066ae6.png?v=1788999095","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026100009222-secondhand-the-collected-poems-of-w-b-yeats","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}