The Wind Among the Reeds

About this book

The reeds move in the wind, and a poet hears voices from another world. W. B. Yeats fills this collection with fairy figures, lost lovers and a sense that an older Ireland remains present beneath familiar scenery.

The Wind Among the Reeds belongs to his early symbolist period, when folklore, occult study and personal longing mixed freely in verse. Its music can be delicate and incantatory, often circling a single image until it takes on unexpected force. The poems offer one of the clearest glimpses of Yeats's youthful mystical imagination.