{"product_id":"2940157690311","title":"Michael Robartes and the Dancer","description":"Michael Robartes and the Dancer has long been regarded as an odd combination of ballad-history and self-revelation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis edition presents all the extant manuscripts for the poems which Yeats wrote between 1914 and 1919, a critical period that included his marriage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublished during the blossoming of Yeats's maturity, (between The Wild Swans at Coole and The Tower), the collection displays poems that confronted political, personal, and philosophical issues that were of great interest to the author. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLiterary critic Harold Bloom of Yale found a single unifying theme in Michael Robartes and the Dancer: \"hatred, both sexual and political\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt includes the poems:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    Michael Robartes and the Dancer\u003cbr\u003e    Solomon And The Witch\u003cbr\u003e    An Image From A Past Life\u003cbr\u003e    Under Saturn\u003cbr\u003e    Easter, 1916\u003cbr\u003e    Sixteen Dead Men\u003cbr\u003e    The Rose-Tree\u003cbr\u003e    On A Political Prisoner\u003cbr\u003e    The Leaders Of The Crowd\u003cbr\u003e    Towards Break Of Day\u003cbr\u003e    Demon And Beast\u003cbr\u003e    The Second Coming\u003cbr\u003e    A Prayer For My Daughter\u003cbr\u003e    A Meditation In Time Of War\u003cbr\u003e    To Be Carved On A Stone At Thoor Ballylee\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese poems of intricate beauty reveal the themes that were to occupy Yeats's poetic genius for the remainder of his life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865-1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. He studied poetry in his youth, and from an early age was fascinated by both Irish legends and the occult. In 1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for what the Nobel Committee described as \"inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation.\"","brand":"Kizra Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47075284746480,"sku":"2940157690311","price":3.65,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940157690311_p0.jpg?v=1764107112","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940157690311","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}