W. B. Yeats a prominent poet of the modern age harnessed his pen in the service of poetry for nearly fifty years.

The poem “Sailing to Byzantium” appears in Yeats’s collection The Tower, published in 1928.

“The Wanderer” by W. H. Auden is a modern poem that draws inspiration from the Old English elegiac tradition, particularly the anonymous Anglo-Saxon poem of the same name.

“The Unknown Citizen,” a lightly satirical lyric, first appeared in The Listener in August 1939 and was later reprinted in The Collected Shorter Poems (1950).

“The Second Coming” stands among W. B. Yeats’s most powerful poems. In this work, Yeats attempts to transform his personal sense of dread into a broad historical vision.

“The Journey of the Magi” is one of T.S. Eliot’s Ariel Poems—a series of works composed for an annual Christmas publication between 1927 and 1929.

“Preludes” was written in 1915. It first appeared in Lewis’ Blast the same year, and was later included in the collection Prufrock in 1917.