Selected poems and four plays of William Butler Yeats
By: edited and with a new foreword and revised introduction and notes by M.L. Rosenthal.
Contributors: Rosenthal, M. L. 1917.
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Scribner Paperback Poetry
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780684826462
Subjects: Ireland -- Literary collections
Genres: Literary collections.
Description: Since its first appearance in 1962, M. L. Rosenthal's classic selection of Yeasts's poems and plays has attracted hundreds of thousands of readers. This newly revised edition includes 211 poems and 4 plays. It adds The Words Upon the Window-Pane, one of Yeats's most startling dramatic works in its realistic use of a seance as the setting for an eerily powerful reenactment of Jonathan Swift's vigorous idealism, baffling love relationships, and tragic madness.

The collection profits from recent scholarship that has helped to establish Yeats's most reliable texts, in the order set by the poet himself. And his powerful lyrical sequences are amply represented, culminating in the selection from Last Poems and Two Plays, which reaches its climax in the brilliant poetic plays The Death of Cuchulain and Purgatory.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-261) and indexes.
"First Scribner Paperback Poetry edition"--T.p. verso.