The Yeats reader
Subtitle: a portable compendium of poetry, drama, and prose
By: edited by Richard J. Finneran.
Contributors: Finneran, Richard J.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: Scribner Poetry; Scribner
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 566
Subjects: Ireland -- Literary collections
Genres: Literary collections.
Description: Throughout his long life, William Butler Yeats produced important works in every literary genre. His early poetry is memorable and moving. His poems and plays of middle age address the human condition with language that has entered our vocabulary for cataclysmic personal and world events. The writings of his final years offer wisdom, courage, humor, and sheer technical virtuosity. The Yeats reader is the most comprehensive single volume to display the full range of Yeats's talents. It presents more than one hundred and fifty of his best-known poems plus eight plays, a sampling of his prose tales, and excerpts from his published autobiographical and critical writings. In addition, an appendix offers six early texts of poems that Yeats later revised. Also included are selections from the memoirs left unpublished at his death and complete introductions written for a projected collection that never came to fruition. These are supplemented by unobtrusive annotation and a chronology of the life.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.