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A black and white line illustration of an Irish rural scene, split into different sections. There are hills, a cottage, a round tower, a river, and flying swans. The title is in purple letters in a white box.

W. B. Yeats

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Turning and turning in the widening gyre

The falcon cannot hear the falconer;

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere

The ceremony of innocence is drowned
    - The Second Coming

W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) was not only Ireland's greatest poet but one of the most influential voices in world literature in the twentieth century. His extraordinary work, in the words of this volume's editor Seamus Heaney, encourages us 'to be more resolutely and abundantly alive, whatever the conditions.'

 

Author: William Butler Yeats

Editor: Seamus Heaney

Format: Hardback

Publisher: Faber and Faber

ISBN: 9780571247349

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