书名：W. B.YeatsSelected Poems 叶芝诗选企鹅现代经典
作者：W. B. Yeats叶芝
出版社名称：Penguin Books
出版时间：2000
语种：英文
ISBN：9780141181257
商品尺寸：13 x 1.7 x 19.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：368 （以实物为准）

When You are Old
When you are old and gray and full of sleep 
And nodding by the fire, take down this book, 
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look 
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; 
……
当你老了 
当你老了，白发茫茫，睡眼蒙眬，
壁炉前打盹儿，请取出这本诗歌，
轻轻吟咏，追忆你过去温柔的眼神，
回想它们深深的倒影；
……
这首有名的When You are Old《当你老了 》是浪漫主义诗人威廉·巴特勒·叶芝于1893年创作的诗歌，是叶芝献给女友毛特·冈妮热烈而真挚的爱情诗篇。诗歌语言简明，但情感丰富真切。叶芝于1923年获得诺贝尔文学奖，评审委员会对他的评语是：“他那永远富有灵感的诗歌，以一种高度艺术的形式表现了一整个民族的精神。”
W. B.YeatsSelected Poems《叶芝诗选》为Penguin Books推出的英文原版，由Timothy Webb主编、作序并注释。书中所选诗歌涉及叶芝各个时期的代表之作。叶芝的早期诗歌以其独特的爱尔兰题材而有别于英国浪漫主义诗歌，韵律感强烈，充满柔美、神秘的梦幻色彩，诗中表现出一种忧郁抒情的氛围，笔触颇似雪莱。中期的诗歌中有一种新的精微的具体性，这种变化不仅表现在内容上，也表现在措词上，其结果就是一种新的质朴无华的、具体的风格。它更关注精神的意象和细节，所表现的情感也更为明确。叶芝后期诗歌的风格更为朴实、精确，口语色彩较浓厚，多取材于诗人个人生活及当时社会生活中的细节，且多以死亡和爱情为题，以表达某种明确的情感和思索。

“A compelling poeticpresence… Together with Joyce, Yeats made modern Irish poetry possible” —Timothy Webb
W. B. Yeats’sSelected Poems is edited with an introduction and notes by Timothy Webb in Penguin Modern Classics.
Few have lived their ideas so passionately and nobly as W. B. Yeats in his love affairs, politics and poetry. From his youth in the 1880s, a fertile dreamer rediscovering and remaking the Irish tradition, he grew into a great and innovative poet of the twentieth century.
This selection of Yeats’s work includes the final book from the unjustly neglected narrative poemThe Wanderings of Oisin and a number of lyrics from Yeats’s work as poetic dramatist. This edition breaks new ground inpresentingalternative versionsofa dozen poems and a number ofsignificant variants. It also includes explanatory and textual notes for each poem.
W. B. Yeats (1865-1939) was one of the great and innovative poets of the twentieth century. Much of his most vigorous verse on love, sex, Irish and international politics, the complexities of the occult and the “sedentary toil” of poetry was produced in the years between his fiftieth birthday in 1915 and his death in 1939. 

威廉·巴特勒·叶芝，（William Butler Yeats，1865~1939），爱尔兰著名诗人、剧作家和散文家。因“其高度艺术化且洋溢着灵感的诗作表达了整个民族的灵魂”，1923年度被授予诺贝尔文学奖。叶芝一生创作丰富，其诗吸收浪漫主义、唯美主义、神秘主义、象征主义和玄学诗的精华，几经变革，终于熔炼出独特的风格。艾略特曾誉之为“二十世纪伟大的英语诗人”。
William Butler Yeats was born in Dublin on 13 June 1865. He studied to become a painter, like his father, but abandoned that profession in 1886 in favour of literature. He was heavily involved in the movement for an Irish literary revival and founded The Irish Literary Theatre with Lady Gregory, becoming its chief playwright. Yeats’ interest in Irish national and traditional myths and imagery can be seen in his early poetry, such asThe Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems (1889), and he was also influenced by his enduring unrequited love for the young heiress Maude Gonne. In 1913 Yeats met the poet Ezra Pound and from that point his writing began to move away from the earlier Pre-Raphaelite style towards modernism. Yeats married Georgie Hyde-Lees in 1917 and with the help of his wife, and informed by his interest in mysticism, he developed a system of “automatic writing” which profoundly affected the poetry of his later years. Yeats served as a senator of the Irish Free State from 1922 and 1928 and received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. He died in the south of France in January 1939.  

  Acknowledgements
  Introduction
  Love Song
  The Wanderings of Oisin(Book III)
Crossways
  The Indian to His Love
  Ephemera
  The Stolen Child
  Down by the Salley Gardens
The Rose
  To the Rose upon the Rood of Time
  Fergus and the Druid
  Cuchulain’s Fight with the Sea
  The Rose of the World
  A Faery Song
  The Lake Isle of Innisfree
  The Sorrow of Love
  When You are Old
  Who Goes with Fergus?
  The Man who Dreamed of Faeryland
  The Dedication to a Book of Stories selected from the Irish Novelists
  The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner
  The Two Trees
  To Ireland in the Coming Times
The Wind Among The Reeds
In the Seven Woods  
from The Green Helmet and Other Poems
Responsibilities  
The Wild Swans at Coole  
Michael Robartes and the Dancer
The Tower
The Winding Stair and Other Poems
from A Full Moon in March
New Poems
from On the Boiler
Last Poems

  Appendix: From“Speaking to the Psaltery”
  Notes
  Bibliography
  Index of First Lines
  Index of Titles

The Lake Isle of Innisfree
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee;
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet’s wings.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.

When You are Old
When you are old and gray and full of sleep 
And nodding by the fire, take down this book, 
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look 
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; 
How many loved your moments of glad grace, 
And loved your beauty with love false or true; 
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, 
And loved the sorrows of your changing face. 
And bending down beside the glowing bars, 
Murmur, a little sadly, how love fled 
And paced upon the mountains overhead, 
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.