''The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems'' was the first collection of
poems
Poetry (derived from the Greek ''poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in a ...
by
W. B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats (13 June 186528 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish liter ...
. It was published in
1889
Events
January–March
* January 1
** The total solar eclipse of January 1, 1889 is seen over parts of California and Nevada.
** Paiute spiritual leader Wovoka experiences a vision, leading to the start of the Ghost Dance movement in the ...
.
In addition to the title poem, the last
epic-scale poem that Yeats ever wrote, the book includes a number of short poems that Yeats would later collect under the title ''Crossways'' in his ''Collected Poems''.
[ Yeats 1990: v, 523]
Contents
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The Wanderings of Oisin
''The Wanderings of Oisin'' ( ) is an epic poem published by William Butler Yeats in 1889 in the book ''The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems''. It was his first publication outside magazines, and immediately won him a reputation as a significa ...
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The Song of the Happy Shepherd
"The Song of the Happy Shepherd" is a poem by William Butler Yeats.
It was first published under this title in his first book, ''The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems'', but in fact the same poem had appeared twice before: as an epilogue to Yeat ...
*The Sad Shepherd
*The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes
*Anashuya and Vijaya
*The Indian upon God
*The Indian to His Love
*The Falling of the Leaves
*Ephemera
*The Madness of King Goll
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The Stolen Child
"The Stolen Child" is an 1889 poem by William Butler Yeats, published in ''The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems''.
Overview
The poem was written in 1886 and is considered to be one of Yeats's more notable early poems. The poem is based on I ...
*To an Isle in the Water
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Down by the Salley Gardens
"Down by the Salley Gardens" (''Irish: Gort na Saileán'') is a poem by William Butler Yeats published in ''The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems'' in 1889.
History
Yeats indicated in a note that it was "an attempt to reconstruct an old song f ...
*The Meditation of the Old Fisherman
*The Ballad of Father O'Hart
*The Ballad of Moll Magee
*The Ballad of the Foxhunter
See also
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List of works by William Butler Yeats
This is a list of all works by Irish poet and dramatist W. B. (William Butler) Yeats (1865–1939), winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature and a major figure in 20th-century literature. Works sometimes appear twice if parts of new editions ...
Notes
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1889 books
Irish poetry collections
Poetry by W. B. Yeats