The Yeats Reader
Selected Poetry, Drama and Prose
Book
Hardback
527 pages
978-0-333-94919-1 (ISBN)
Description
Throughout his life, William Butler Yeats produced important works in every literary genre, works of astonishing range, energy and skill. "The Yeats Reader" selects from across the range of Yeats's writing. It presents over a hundred of Yeats's best known poems, plus eight plays, a sampling of his prose tales and excerpts from his published autobiographical and critical writings. Also collected are selections from the memoirs left unpublished at his death and complete introductions written for the projected Palgrave edition of his collected works. These are supplemented by a detailed notes section and a chronology of his life.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
chronology, notes
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-333-94919-1 (9780333949191)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
RICHARD J. FINNERAN holds the Hodges Chair of Excellence at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Content
Preface - Chronology - POEMS - From Crossways (1889) - From The Rose (1893) - From The Wind Among the Reeds (1899) - From In the Seven Woods (1903) - From The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910) - From Responsibilities (1914) - From The Wild Swans at Coole (1917) - From Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) - From The Power (1928) - From The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933) - From Parnell's Funeral and Other Poems (1935) - From New Poems (1938) - From [Last Poems, 1938-39] - PLAYS - Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902) - Deirdre (1907) - At the Hawk's Well (1917) - On Baile's Strand (1903) - The Resurrection (1927) - The Words upon the Window-pane (1934) - The Death of Cuchulain (1939) - Purgatory (1939) - AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS - From Reveries Over Childhood and Youth (1916) - From Dramatis Personae (1935) - From The Bounty of Sweden (1925) - From Memoirs (Written 1916-17, Published 1972) - From Journal (Written 1909-30, Published 1972) - From Pages from a Diary Written in Nineteen Hundred and Thirty (1944) - CRITICAL WRITINGS - From Ideas of Good and Evil (1903) - From Samhain (1903) - From Samhain (1908) - From The Cutting of an Agate (1912) - From Per Amica Silentia Lunae (1918) - From A Vision (1925, 1937) - Essays for the Scribner Edition (1937) - From On the Boiler (1939) - PROSE FICTION - From The Celtic Twilight (1893, 1902) - The Adoration of the Magi (1897) - From Stories of Red Hanrahan (1905) - NOTES - A Note on the Notes - A Note on the Text - Notes to the Poems - Notes to the Plays - Notes to Autobiographical Writings - Notes to Critical Writings - Notes to Prose Fiction