"William Butler Yeats was born in 1865, the son of the artist John Butler Yeats. He was to become one of the twentieth century's greatest poets in the English language. In 1923 Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 'for his always inspired poetry'. In The Moon Spun Round Yeats scholar Dr Noreen Doody has selected some of Yeats's best-loved poems and stories, which appeal to all ages."--Inside front flap.