{"product_id":"the-wild-swans-at-coole-a-facsimile-edition-paperback","title":"The Wild Swans at Coole: A Facsimile Edition - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWilliam Butler Yeats\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGeorge Bornstein\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA stunning facsimile of the 1919 first edition of William Butler Yeats's \u003ci\u003eThe Wild Swans at Coole\u003c\/i\u003e: an elegant volume showcasing these poems as they would have first been read and a complement to facsimile editions \u003ci\u003eThe Winding Stair\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Tower\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePublished in 1919 during W.B. Yeats's \"middle stage\" and composed of poems written during World War I, \u003ci\u003eThe Wild Swans at Coole\u003c\/i\u003e is contemplative and elegiac. This collection captures Yeats at a time when he was looking back on his life, coming to terms with the realities of modern war, reflecting on lost love, and defining his place in the world as a poet. It features forty poems, among them \"The Fisherman,\" \"In Memory of Major Robert Gregory,\" \"The Wild Swans at Coole,\" and \"On Being Asked for a War Poem.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis facsimile of the original 1919 edition presents the reader with the work in its original form, with handsome old fashioned type, how readers and Yeats himself would have seen it in the early twentieth century. A great gift book and collector's item, \u003ci\u003eThe Wild Swans at Coole\u003c\/i\u003e also includes an Introduction and notes by esteemed Yeats scholar George Bornstein.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam Butler Yeats is generally considered to be Ireland's greatest poet, living or dead, and one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGeorge Bornstein wrote five critical books on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature. A longtime student of material textuality, he produced several major editions of modernist works, including two volumes on Yeats's early poetry for the Cornell Yeats Series and the collection \u003ci\u003eUnder the Moon: Unpublished Early Poetry by W. B. Yeats.\u003c\/i\u003e He held fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Guggenheim Foundation, and served as president of the Society for Textual Scholarship.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.4 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 07, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52624916054323,"sku":"9781501106040","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/OGF6b3dybzUzb0lmVDErNnNsdVVYdz09.webp?v=1762019848","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-wild-swans-at-coole-a-facsimile-edition-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}