The poems, prose, and drama gathered in When You Are Old introduce a fresh portrait of the Nobel Prize-winning writer as a younger man- the 1890s aesthete and dandy who collected Irish folklore, dabbled in magic, and wrote heartrending poems for his beloved-the beautiful, elusive Irish revolutionary Maud Gonne.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865-1939) was one of the most influential
English-language poets of the twentieth century. He received the
1923 Nobel Prize in Literature.
ROB DOGGETT is a professor of English at the State University of
New York at Geneseo. He is the author of Deep-Rooted Things- Empire
and Nation in the Poetry and Drama of William Butler Yeats.
By the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
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