When you are old: early poems and fairy tales, hardcover/william butler yeats

From A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers featuring cover art by Jessica Hische It all begins with a letter.

Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-six collectible and hardcover editions, each with a type cover showcasing a gorgeously illustrated letter of the alphabet.

In a design collaboration between Jessica Hische and Penguin Art Director Paul Buckley, the series features unique cover art by Hische, a superstar in the world of type design and illustration, whose work has appeared everywhere from Tiffany & Co.

to Wes Andersons recent film Moonrise Kingdom to Penguins own bestsellers Committed and Rules of Civility.

With exclusive designs that have never before appeared on Hisches hugely popular Daily Drop Cap blog, the Penguin Drop Caps series debuted with an A for Jane Austens Pride and Prejudice, a B for Charlotte Brontes Jane Eyre, and a C for Willa Cathers My Antonia.

It continues with more perennial classics, perfect to give as elegant gifts or to showcase on your own shelves.

Y is for Yeats.

A specially compiled edition for the Penguin Drop Caps series, When You Are Oldwill include the most accessible, best-known poems by W.

Yeats from his early years that made the Nobel Prize winning writer and poet popular in his day.

The volume will include all the major love poems written most notably for the brilliant yet elusive Irish revolutionary Maude Gonne.

Recalling Yeats s 1890s fascination in aestheticism and the arts and crafts movement, selections will draw from the first published versions of poems from works such asCrossways, The Rose, The Wind Among the Reeds, In the Seven Woods, The Green Helmet and Other Poems, Responsibilities, The Wild Swans at Coole, andMichael Robartes and the Dancer.

A selection Irish myths and fairytales including The Wanderings of Oisin, a Celtic fable and his first major poem, represent his fascination with mysticism, spiritualism and the rich and imaginative heritage of his native land.