Penguin Books Ltd

Features a selection of the works of W B Yeats, which includes the narrative poem The Wanderings of Oisin. This title also includes poems in alternative versions; and in many other cases it provides significant variants, so that Yeats struggle to revise his poetry can be experienced with unusual immediacy.

From joyful poems such as The Flea, which transforms the image of a louse into the intimate and intense Holy Sonnets, the author breathed vigour into poetry by drawing lucid and often startling metaphors from the world in which he lived.