Responsibilities, and other poems
by W. B. Yeats
Illustrated by T. Sturge Moore
"Responsibilities, and other poems" by W. B. Yeats is a poetry collection published in 1916. This work marks a dramatic shift from Yeats's earlier dreamlike Celtic verse to poems confronting harsh modern realities. The collection addresses political controversies, personal attacks, Dublin's 1913 workers' strike, and cultural battles. Opening with the enigmatic line "In dreams begins responsibility," Yeats announces a new direction—one where romantic Ireland gives way to unflinching engagement with contemporary life's conflicts and tensions.
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Poems
The Wind Among the Reeds
The Celtic Twilight
The Unicorn from the Stars and Other Plays
Ideas of Good and Evil
The Wild Swans at Coole
The King's Threshold; and On Baile's Strand
The Countess Cathleen
Plays and controversies
The Trembling of the Veil
Reveries over Childhood and Youth
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A farewell to arms
The Jungle Book
The Problems of Philosophy
The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English
The Phantom 'Rickshaw, and Other Ghost Stories
The Red Lily — Complete
Siddhartha
Pygmalion
Buddenbrooks: Verfall einer Familie
Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
The Knights of the Cross, or, Krzyzacy: Historical Romance
Just so stories
The Sun Also Rises
Demian
Der Zauberberg. Erster Band
The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2
The sound and the fury
Gitanjali
