The wild swans on cool (poetry book)

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William Butler Yeats (1911)

The Wild Swans on Coole is a book of poetry by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats .

publication

It first appeared in 1917, with the title poem The Wild Swans on Coole first being printed in the Little Review . The original 1917 anthology contained 29 poems and the drama At the Hawk's Well . In 1919 the band was reissued. The drama was now missing, but the book had been expanded to include seventeen poems. This second publication was obtained from Macmillan Publishers.

German editions

The total of 46 poems were not all translated into German during Yeats's lifetime, although some poems, such as the very popular Die wilden Schwäne auf Coole , were published in several translations, some by amateur lyricists and amateur translators.

A first complete edition from 1919 of all poems, as they were taken from the English complete edition The Complete Poems by WB Yeats , was published in 2005 by Luchterhand Literaturverlag and edited by Norbert Hummelt . The poems of The Wild Swans on Coole were translated by Christa Schuenke . The German titles listed below are from their translation.

The poems

  • The wild swans on cool
  • In memory of Major Robert Gregory
  • An Irish aviator anticipates his death
  • Men get better with age
  • The collarbone of a hare
  • Under the round tower
  • Solomon as Queen of Sheba
  • Living beauty
  • A song
  • Of a young beauty
  • To a young girl
  • The scholars
  • Tom O'Roughley
  • The shepherd and the goatherd
  • Verses written in dejection
  • Dawn
  • The woman
  • The fisherman
  • The Hawk
  • memory
  • Your praise
  • The people
  • His phoenix
  • A thought of propertius
  • Broken dreams
  • A deeply sworn oath
  • Apparitions
  • The balloon of the mind
  • To a squirrel in Kyle-na-no
  • When asked to write a war poem
  • In memory of Alfred Pollexfen
  • To a dying woman
  • Ego Dominus Tuus
  • A prayer upon entering my house
  • The phases of the moon
  • The cat and the moon
  • The saint and the hunchback
  • Ten fool's songs
  • Another fool's song
  • The second face of Michael Robartes

reception

The works in this volume deal with Yeats and his Irish nationalism and are part of Yeats' creation of an "Irish aesthetic " in literature. They were all received favorably and with earlier volumes of poetry such as Responsibilities may have contributed to the fact that in 1923 he was the first Irishman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature . Furthermore, literary scholars see it in such a way that The Wild Swans on Coole belongs to the middle work of the poet, which combines the earlier works with the virtuoso late work ( The Tower , The Spiral Staircase and other poems ).

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