Book 1, The Collected Poems of WB Yeats : Chapter 1, Crossways & The Rose Summary

This book is the first of a set of volumes. This volume is dedicated to the author's poetry. The poetic works were written on both sides of the threshold of the 19th and 20th centuries, 'AD.' The poems are further divided into a small number of major categories. The first of these is Lyrical. The summary chapter covers approximately 50 pages of text found in the book. In this case, this covers those poems within the Lyrical set that come under the headings 'Crossways,' which is labeled 1889 and 'The Rose,' which is dated 1893. Readers should be aware that while the pagination may not be exact, the poem titles and dates should eliminate the vast majority of confusion.

The very first characteristic...