5 Best Books By W. B. Yeats
List of 5 best books written by W. B. Yeats. Check out our list.
1. The Wild Swans at Coole
Yeats was staying with his friend Lady Gregory at her home at Coole Park where he assembled this collection of poetry. Literary scholar Daniel Tobin writes that Yeats was melancholy and unhappy, reflecting on his advancing age, romantic rejections by both Maud Gonne and her daughter Iseult Gonne, and the ongoing Irish rebellion against the British.
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2. Ideas of Good and Evil
I believe in the practice and philosophy of what we have agreed to call magic, in what I must call the evocation of spirits, though I do not know what they are, in the power of creating magical illusions, in the visions of truth in the depths of the mind when the eyes are closed; and I believe in three doctrines, which have, as I think, been handed down from early times, and been the foundations of nearly all magical practices.
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3. The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays
A youth has visions that eventually bring him into conflict with the Crown. He goes into a trance and experiences heavenly visions until two policemen arrive to arrest him. A clash ensues and the youth is shot and killed.
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4. The Wind Among the Reeds
Be you still, be you still, trembling heart; Remember the wisdom out of the old days: Him who trembles before the flame and the flood, And the winds that blow through the starry ways, Let the starry winds and the flame and the flood cover over and hide, for he has no part with the proud, majestical multitude.
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5. The Secret Rose
My friends in Ireland sometimes ask me when I am going to write a really national poem or romance, and by a national poem or romance, I understand them to mean a poem or romance founded upon some famous moment of Irish history and built up out of the thoughts and feelings which move the greater number of patriotic Irishmen. I on the other hand believe that poetry and romance cannot be made by the most conscientious study of famous moments and of the thoughts and feelings of others, but only by looking into that little, infinite, faltering, eternal flame that we call ourselves.
