This compelling collection spans Yeats’s career: from the poems of his early years, which display his interest in Irish myths and his hopeless passion for Irish patriot Maud Gonne, to the soaring, majestic poems of his old age. Works of precision, economy and sensuous, lyrical beauty, they include The Lake Isle of Innisfree, The Wild Swans at Coole, Byzantium, and Leda and the Swan.