W. B. Yeats - Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney

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'.

This is the prescribed edition for NSW Stage 6 English HSC 2027-2028 which contains all seven of the prescribed poems: 

• The Wild Swans at Coole
• An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
• Easter 1916
• The Second Coming
• Sailing to Byzantium
• An Acre of Grass
• Long-legged Fly

Prescribed text for NSW Syllabus English Advanced: HSC 2027-2030.