William Butler Yeats

Richard J. Finneran

Recreates the classic collection of twenty-one poems, first published in 1928, including such acclaimed works as "Leda and the Swan," "Sailing to Byzantium," and "Among School Children."

A Facsimile Edition

The Tower

Drawing upon both published and unpublished material, Finneran traces the relationship between Yeats and Stephens, his protege, a relationship which is significant not only to the careers of both writers, but also to the history of Anglo-Irish Litera

W. B. Yeats and James Stephens

The Olympian & the Leprechaun

This volume provides accurate texts of all the poems by Yeats published in his lifetime or scheduled for publication as of his death on January 28, 1939, including those omitted from earlier collections.

The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats

Includes a special section on teaching Yeats

An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies 1995

Yeats

Another volume in the distinguished annual

An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies, 1998

A new volume in the distinguished annual that presents the latest and best Yeats criticism

An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies

Yeats Annual

George Bornstein

The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume IV: Early Essays is part of a fourteen-volume series under the general editorship of eminent Yeats scholars George Bornstein and George Mills Harper. These volumes include virtually all of the Nobel laureate's published work, in authoritative texts with extensive explanatory notes. Early Essays, edited by the internationally esteemed Yeats scholars George Bornstein and the late Richard J. Finneran, includes the contents of the two most important collections of Yeats's critical prose, Ideas of Good and Evil(1903) and The Cutting of an Agate(1912, 1919). Among the seminal essays are considerations of Blake, Shakespeare, Shelley, Spenser, and Synge, as well as an extended discussion of the Japanese Noh theatre. The first scholarly edition of these materials, Early Essays offers a corrected text and detailed annotation of all allusions. Several appendices gather materials from early printings which were later excluded, as well as illuminating black-and-white illustrations. Early Essays is an essential sourcebook for understanding Yeats's career as both writer and literary critic, and for the development of modern poetry and criticism. Here, Yeats works out many of his key ideas on poetry, politics, and the theater. He gives interpretations of writers critical to his development and presents a compelling vision of Ireland and the modern world during the last decade of the nineteenth century and first two decades of the twentieth. As T. S. Eliot remarked, Yeats "was one of those few whose history is the history of their own time, who are a part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be understood without them." This volume displays a crucial part of that history.

Richard J. Finneran

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