Lake Isle of Innisfree E-book
Author: William Butler Yeats
Genre: Literature, Poetry
Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939) - Irish poet and dramatist, widely
considered one of the greatest English-speaking poets of the 20th century.
He was a leader of the Irish Renaissance and later a devoted spiritualist.
Yeats received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923.
Lake Isle of Innisfree (1893) - This early poem relates Yeat's "old day-
dream," that he would someday live "as Thoreau lived." Opening lines: I will
arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, / And a small cabin build there, ...
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