{"product_id":"2940150246362","title":"W.B. Yeats - Essays","description":"This edition features\u003cbr\u003e • three complete books\u003cbr\u003e • illustrations\u003cbr\u003e • linked Tables of Contents, and Notes\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eW.B. YEATS - ESSAYS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003eIDEAS OF GOOD AND EVIL\u003cbr\u003eREVERIES OVER CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH\u003cbr\u003eTHE CELTIC TWILIGHT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Author\u003cbr\u003e\"William Butler Yeats (\/'je?ts\/; 13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. \u003cbr\u003eA pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish Senator for two terms. \u003cbr\u003eYeats was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and, along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn, and others, founded the Abbey Theatre, where he served as its chief during its early years. \u003cbr\u003eIn 1923 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Irishman so honoured for what the Nobel Committee described as \"inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation.\" \u003cbr\u003eYeats is generally considered one of the few writers who completed their greatest works after being awarded the Nobel Prize; such works include The Tower (1928) and The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1929). \u003cbr\u003eYeats was a very good friend of American expatriate poet and Bollingen Prize laureate Ezra Pound. Yeats wrote the introduction for Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali, which was published by the India Society.\" --Wikipedia\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"VolumesOfValue","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47183321497840,"sku":"2940150246362","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940150246362_p0.jpg?v=1763740873","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940150246362","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}