
Collected works of W.B. Yeats
Early Articles and Reviews
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 30. July 2004
Book
Hardback
656 pages
978-0-333-43880-0 (ISBN)
Description
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, Volume IX: Early Articles and Reviews is part of a fourteen-volume series under the general editorship of eminent Yeats scholars Richard J. Finneran and George Mills Harper. This first complete edition includes virtually all of the Nobel laureate's published work, in authoritative texts with extensive explanatory notes. Co-edited by John Frayne and Madeleine Marchaterre, Early Articles and Reviews assembles the earliest examples of Yeats's critical prose, from 1886 to the end of the century - articles and reviews that were not collected into book form by the poet himself. Gathered together now, they show the earliest development of Yeats's ideas on poetry, the role of literature, Irish literature, the formation of an Irish National theatre, and the occult, as well as Yeats's interaction with his contemporary writers. As seen here, Yeats's vigorous activity as magazine critic and propagandist for the Irish literary cause belies the popular picture created by his poetry of the "Celtic Twilight" period, that of an idealistic dreamer in flight from the harsh realities of the practical world.
This new volume adds four years' worth of Yeats's writings not included in a previous (1970) edition of his early articles and reviews. It also greatly expands the background notes and textual notes, bringing this compilation up to date with the busy world of Yeats scholarship over the last three decades. Early Articles and Reviews is an essential source book illuminating Yeats's reading, his influences, and his literary opinions about poets and writers of past history.
This new volume adds four years' worth of Yeats's writings not included in a previous (1970) edition of his early articles and reviews. It also greatly expands the background notes and textual notes, bringing this compilation up to date with the busy world of Yeats scholarship over the last three decades. Early Articles and Reviews is an essential source book illuminating Yeats's reading, his influences, and his literary opinions about poets and writers of past history.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 141 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-333-43880-0 (9780333438800)
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Persons
JOHN P. FRAYNE is Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA where he has taught Anglo-Irish Literature and Modern British Literature for over three decades. MADELEINE MARCHATERRE is a research specialist for the University of Illinois Foundation. She earned her Ph.D in English Literature from the University of Illinois in 1997.
Content
Editors' Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Articles and Reviews by W. B. Yeats Appendix I: Copy Texts Used in This Edition Appendix 2: Emendations to the Copy Texts Index