The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics

The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics is the second poetry collection of William Butler Yeats.

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It includes the play The Countess Kathleen and group of shorter lyrics that Yeats would later collect under the title of The Rose in his Collected Poems.

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This volume includes several of Yeats' most popular poems, including The Lake Isle of Innisfree, A Faery Song ("Come away o human child..."), When you are old, and Who goes with Fergus. (The latter was James Joyce's favorite lyric poem; it is the song Stephen Daedalus sings to his mother as she lies dying in Ulysses.)

Related Topics:
James Joyce's - Ulysses

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Many of these poems also reflect Yeats' new-discovered interest in alchemy and esotericism.

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