The Wind Among the Reeds is a classic collection of Irish poetry by William Butler Yeats.
In 1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature..
He largely renounced the transcendental beliefs of his youth, though he remained preoccupied with physical and spiritual masks, as well as with cyclical theories of life.
From 1900, his poetry grew more physical and realistic.
His earliest volume of verse was published in 1889, and its slow-paced and lyrical poems display Yeats\'s debts to Edmund Spenser, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and the poets of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
These topics feature in the first phase of his work, which lasted roughly until the turn of the 20th century.
He spent childhood holidays in County Sligo and studied poetry from an early age when he became fascinated by Irish legends and the occult.
He was born in Sandymount, Ireland and educated there and in London.
Yeats was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and others.
A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served as an Irish Senator for two terms.
About the Author: William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 - 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature.
All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old, The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart, The heavy steps of the ploughman, splashing the wintry mould, Are wronging your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart.
The Wind Among the Reeds is a classic collection of Irish poetry by William Butler Yeats
