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P2. Portrait of WB Yeats by John Singer Sargent, from Selected Poems by WB Yeats, macmillan 1932

P17. The Enchanted Land, illustration by Emma Byrne P24-25. The Lake Isle of Innisfree, courtesy of Reflexstock

P29. The Romantic Idealist, illustration by Emma Byrne

P36-37. Reeds, courtesy of Reflexstock P48. Coole Parke and Thoor Ballylee, illustration by Emma Byrne

P52-53. The Woods at Coole Park, courtesy of Reflexstock

P63. War and Politics, illustration by Emma Byrne P74-75. The execution yard at Kilmainham Gaol, courtesy of Reflexstock

P80. Old Age and Death, illustration by Emma Byrne P87. Yeats’s grave, Drumcliffe Graveyard, Sligo, and

P88-89. Ben Bulben, courtesy of Reflexstock q^_ib lc `lkqbkqp william butler yeats the poet and ireland page 09

The Enchanted Land The Stolen Child 18 A Faery Song 20 Lines from The Land of Heart’s Desire 21 The Hosting of the Sidhe 22 The Song of Wandering Aengus 23 The Lake Isle of Innisfree 26 The Fiddler of Dooney 27 Red Hanrahan’s Song about Ireland 28

The Romantic Idealist He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven 30 The Pity of Love 31 The Sorrow of Love 32 The White Birds 33 Down by the Salley Gardens 34 The Ragged Wood 35 When You are Old 38 No Second Troy 39 The Lover Pleads with his Friend for Old Friends 40 The Folly of Being Comforted 41 Never Give all the Heart 42 The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water 43 O Do Not Love Too Long 44 To a Child Dancing in the Wind 45 Two Years Later 46 Memory 47 Coole Park and Thoor Ballylee The Wild Swans at Coole 49 In the Seven Woods 51 My House 54 A Prayer on going in to my House 56 A Cradle Song 57 A Prayer for my Daughter 58 To be Carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee 62

War and Politics September 1913 64 To a Shade 66 An Irish Airman Foresees his Death 68 Easter 1916 69 Sixteen Dead Men 76 The Rose Tree 77 In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz 78

Old Age and Death Sailing to Byzantium 81 The Wheel 83 Youth and Age 84 What Then? 85 From Under Ben Bulben (Cast a Cold Eye etc.) 86

Biographical summary 90 designer’s note 93 Index of First Lines 96