"John Sherman" is the only work of realistic fiction Yeats ever completed. The novelette contains many biographical elements and is of interest for its treatment of Yeats's recurring themes. It examines the debate between na...

Naxos AudioBooks continues its new series of Great Poets represented by a collection of their most popular poems on one CD with John Keats. Although this man had a short life, he produced a series of outstanding poems many of which...

Yeatss poetry is rich with the imagery, mythology, and musicality of his homeland, Ireland, but his themes are universal: the conflict between life and death, love and hate, and the meaning of mans existence in an imperfect world.

Yeatss poetry is rich with the imagery, mythology, and musicality of his homeland, Ireland, but his themes are universal: the conflict between life and death, love and hate, and the meaning of mans existence in an imperfect world.

-- Nobel Prize winning writer and poet W.B. Yeats included almost every sort of Irish folk in this marvelous compendium of fairy tales and songs that he collected and edited for publication in 1892.-- Yeats was fascinated by Irish myt...

Written in the musical speech of the poet's home region of Kiltartan, County Galway, this collection of stories centers on country schoolmaster Red Hanrahan and his supernatural experiences. Additional tales include those of The Secre...