Wild Swans of Coole

W. B. Yeats

Wild Swans of Coole

Churchtown, Dundrum

Cuala Press

1917

Proof copy, with Yeats’s notes, from Ezra Pound’s library.

In this landmark in Yeats’s oeuvre, he meditates on aging and mourns the death in combat of Lady Gregory’s son, Robert, in the poems “An Irish Airman Foresees His Death” and “In Memory of Major Robert Gregory.”