Yeats's Poetry, Drama, and Prose: Authoritative Texts, Contexts, CriticismIncludes a comprehensive and annotated selection of Yeats's major writings: 145 poems from Crossways through Last Poems including five poems in both early and revised versions; the plays Cathleen ni Houlihan, On Baile's Strand, At the Hawk's Well , and Purgatory; prose fiction and folklore from The Celtic Twilight, The Secret Rose , and Stories of Red Hanrahan; autobiographical writings from Reveries over Childhood and Youth through the posthumously published Memoirs; and selections from critical writings. Commentators include Oscar Wilde, Ezra Pound, Marianne Moore, T.S. Eliot, Helen Vendler, Harold Bloom, Richard Ellman and Seamus Heaney. A Yeats chronology is included. No subject index. |
Contents
FROM CROSSWAYS 1889 | 6 |
FROM THE ROSE 1892 | 22 |
FROM IN THE SEVEN WOODS 1903 | 30 |
A Drinking Song | 37 |
FROM THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE 1917 | 54 |
FROM MICHAEL ROBARTES AND THE DANCER 1921 | 71 |
FROM THE TOWER 1928 | 80 |
FROM THE WINDING STAIR AND OTHER POEMS 1933 | 102 |
Essays for the Scribner Edition of Yeatss Collected Works 1937 | 300 |
12 | 308 |
CRITICISM BY YEATSS CONTEMPORARIES | 321 |
RECENT CRITICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL STUDIES | 334 |
13 | 340 |
Daniel Albright Yeatss Waves | 346 |
Harold Bloom | 356 |
Hearing and Performance | 366 |
FROM A FULL MOON IN MARCH 1935 | 113 |
FROM LAST POEMS 1939 | 122 |
Cathleen ni Houlihan 1902 | 133 |
On Bailes Strand 1903 | 141 |
At the Hawks Well 1917 | 160 |
Purgatory 1939 | 169 |
PROSE FICTION AND FOLKLORE WRITINGS | 177 |
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS | 210 |
xxi | 221 |
XXV | 229 |
10 | 250 |
CRITICAL WRITINGS | 258 |
11 | 297 |
R F Foster The Taste of Salt 19021903 | 379 |
Cultural Nationalism | 387 |
Elizabeth Butler Cullingford Shrill Voices Accursed Opinions | 399 |
John Kelly | 407 |
Thomas Parkinson The Passionate Syntax | 413 |
Seamus Heaney | 429 |
Marjorie Perloff | 439 |
Among School | 455 |
Deirdre Toomey | 462 |
Douglas Archibald | 484 |
The Rose of the World | 496 |
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