When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales

Beautiful early writings by one of the 20th century’s greatest poets on the 150th anniversary of his birth The poems, prose, and drama gathered in When You Are Old present a fresh portrait of the Nobel Prize–winning writer as a younger man: the 1890s aesthete who dressed as a dandy, collected Irish folklore, dabbled in magic, and wrote heartrending poems for his beloved, the beautiful, elusive Irish revolutionary Maud Gonne. Included here are such celebrated, lyrical poems as “The Lake Isle o...

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