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The Playboy of the Western World and Two Other Irish Plays

Lady Susan

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The Constitution of the United States

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The World is Full of Foolish Men

Love That Moves the Sun and Other Stars

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A Terrible Beauty Is Born

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<i>'But I, being poor, have only my dreams; / I have spread my dreams under your feet...'</i><br/>
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By turns joyful and despairing, some of the twentieth century's greatest verse on fleeting youth, fervent hopes and futile sacrifice.

W B Yeats (1865 - 1939) is one of the greatest and most innovative poets of the twentieth century. Much of his most vigorous verse on love, sex, Irish and international politics, the complexities of the occult and the 'sedentary toil' of poetry was produced in the years between his fiftieth birthday in 1915 and his death in 1939.

A Terrible Beauty Is Born

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