The Wild Swans at Coole

Poetry collections by William Butler Yeats

First US edition
(1919 publ. Macmillan Publishers)
Jacket design by Sturge Moore

The Wild Swans at Coole is the name of two collections of poetry by W. B. Yeats, published in 1917 and 1919.

## Publication history

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The Wild Swans at Coole, a collection of twenty-nine poems and the play At the Hawk's Well, was first published by the Cuala Press in November 1917.[1] The title poem of the collection had first appeared in the Little Review in June of that year. Macmillan (London and New York) republished the poems in March 1919 without the play but with an additional seventeen poems. The completed volume, also called The Wild Swans at Coole, represents the "middle stage" of Yeats' writing and is concerned, amongst other themes, with Irish nationalism and the creation of an Irish aesthetic.[2][3]

## Poems in The Wild Swans at Coole (1917)

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* "The Wild Swans at Coole"
* "Men Improve with the Years"
* "The Collar-Bone of a Hare"
* "Lines Written in Dejection"
* "The Dawn"
* "On Woman"
* "The Fisherman"
* "The Hawk"
* "Memory"
* "Her Praise"
* "The People"
* "His Phoenix"
* "A Thought from Propertius"
* "Broken Dreams"
* "A Deep-sworn Vow"
* "Presences"
* "The Balloon of the Mind"
* "To a Squirrel at Kyle-na-gno"
* "On being asked for a War Poem"
* "In Memory"
* "Upon a Dying Lady"
* "Ego Dominus Tuus"
* "The Scholars"

## Poems in The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)

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* "The Wild Swans at Coole"
* "In Memory of Major Robert Gregory"
* "An Irish Airman Foresees his Death"
* "Men improve with the Years"
* "The Collar-Bone of a Hare"
* "Under the Round Tower"
* "Solomon to Sheba"
* "The Living Beauty"
* "A Song"
* "To a Young Beauty"
* "To a Young Girl"
* "The Scholars"
* "Tom O'Roughley"
* "The Sad Shepherd"
* "Lines written in Dejection"
* "The Dawn"
* "On Woman"
* "The Fisherman"
* "The Hawk"
* "Memory"
* "Her Praise"
* "The People"
* "His Phoenix"
* "A Thought from Propertius"
* "Broken Dreams"
* "A Deep-Sworn Vow"
* "Presences"
* "The Balloon of the Mind"
* "To a Squirrel at Kyle-Na-Gno"
* "On being asked for a War Poem"
* "In Memory of Alfred Pollexfen"
* "Upon a Dying Lady"
* "Ego Dominus Tuus"
* "A Prayer on going into my House"
* "The Phases of the Moon"
* "The Cat and the Moon"
* "The Saint and the Hunchback"
* "Two Songs of a Fool"
* "Another Song of a Fool"
* "The Double Vision of Michael Robartes*"

## See also

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* 1917 in poetry
* 1919 in poetry

## References

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1. ^ Schuchard, Ronald (1993), Gould, Warwick (ed.), "Hawk and Butterfly: The Double Vision of The Wild Swans at Coole (1917, 1919)", Yeats Annual No. 10, London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, pp. 111–134, doi:10.1007/978-1-349-11916-5_5, ISBN 978-1-349-11918-9, retrieved 19 November 2023
2. ^ Miyake, Nobue (1999). "The Restoration of Wholeness in "The Wild Swans at Coole"". The Harp. 14: 49–59\. ISSN 1340-5470. JSTOR 20533400.
3. ^ Nakao, Masami (2013). ""The Wild Swans at Coole" and Ireland of Its Time". Journal of Irish Studies. 28: 34–43\. ISSN 1346-7700. JSTOR 23609033.

## External links

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The Wild Swans at Coole

* The collected public domain poetry of Yeats as an eBook at Standard Ebooks
* Original The Wild Swans at Coole MS on display at National Library of Ireland
* The Wild Swans at Coole public domain audiobook at LibriVox
* The 1919 edition of The Wild Swans at Coole at Project Gutenberg.

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W. B. Yeats

Poetry|

| Volumes|

* The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems (1889)
* The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics (1892)
* In the Seven Woods (1903)
* Responsibilities and Other Poems (1916)
* The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
* Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921)
* The Tower (1928)
* The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)

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Poems|

* "Adam's Curse"
* "Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven"
* "Blood and the Moon"
* "The Circus Animals' Desertion"
* "Down by the Salley Gardens"
* "A Drunken Man's Praise of Sobriety"
* "Easter, 1916"
* "Ego Dominus Tuus"
* "The Fiddler of Dooney"
* "The Gift of Harun Al-Raschid"
* "In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz"
* "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death"
* "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"
* "Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen"
* "On being asked for a War Poem"
* "Politics"
* "A Prayer for My Daughter"
* "Remorse for Intemperate Speech"
* "The Rose of Battle"
* "The Rose-Tree"
* "Sailing to Byzantium"
* "The Scholars"
* "The Second Coming"
* "September 1913"
* "The Song of the Happy Shepherd"
* "Song of the Old Mother"
* "The Song of Wandering Aengus"
* "The Stolen Child"
* "Swift's Epitaph"
* "To the Rose upon the Rood of Time"
* "The Tower"
* "Under Ben Bulben"
* "The Wanderings of Oisin"
* "The Wild Swans at Coole"

Plays|

* Mosada (1886)
* The Land of Heart's Desire (1894)
* Diarmuid and Grania (1901)
* Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902)
* On Baile's Strand (1903)
* The Countess Cathleen (1911)
* At the Hawk's Well (1916)
* The Resurrection (1927)
* Purgatory (1938)

Other works|

* The Works of William Blake: Poetic, Symbolic and Critical (1893; co-author)
* A Vision (1925)
* The Bounty of Sweden (1925)
* "The Curse of the Fires and of the Shadows"
* Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892–1935 (editor)

People|

* Georgie Hyde-Lees (wife)
* Anne Yeats (daughter)
* Michael Yeats (son)
* John Butler Yeats (father)
* Susan Pollexfen (mother)
* Jack Butler Yeats (brother)
* Elizabeth Yeats (sister)
* Lily Yeats (sister)
* Maud Gonne (muse)

Related|

* W. B. Yeats bibliography
* Rhymers' Club
* Dun Emer Press
* Cuala Press
* An Appointment with Mr Yeats
* "Troy"
* Thoor Ballylee
* Samhain magazine
* The Speckled Bird

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