From the publication of his first poems at the age of twenty, to
his Nobel Prize in 1923, W. B. Yeats grew from an aspiring poet
spellbound by the mystical life, to an Irish senator crafting
modernist poetry around a complex system of symbolism. When You are
Old: Early Poems and Fairy Tales returns to the younger Yeats,
encountering him through Irish mythology and much-beloved poems
like "The Lake Isle of Innisfree" and "He Wishes for the Cloths of
Heaven" that made him popular during his own lifetime. The poems,
plays, and prose collected here present Yeats as the 1890s aesthete
who dressed as a dandy, collected Irish folklore, dabbled in magic,
and wrote beautiful poems for his beloved, steeped in the
late-Victorian aesthetics of the symbolist and decadence movements,
as well as early modernism. Approaching his early verse and tales
with innocent candor as if reading Yeats for the first time, this
volume proffers lush images of western Ireland full of faeries and
otherworldly beings, framed within a profound fascination with
aestheticism and the Arts and Crafts Movement, all giving
expression to Yeats's early nationalist sympathies.
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