The Yeats Reader: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Prose

ISBN-13: 9781403904430 / Miękka / 2002 / 566 str.

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Opis

The Yeats Reader is the first single volume to encompass the full range of William Butler Yeats's talents. It presents over a hundred and fifty of Yeats's 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 Also included are selections from the memoirs left unpublished at his death and complete introductions written for the unpublished Scribner Edition of his collected works. The Yeats Reader also includes detailed notes and a chronology of the life.

Recenzje

'...will suit courses which deal with Yeats's work as a whole. In this sense, as well, Finneran's volume is a superior teaching tool to Pethica's...The prefactory matter is short, but well written, and makes a strong case for having available in one volume both the creative and critical output which we know are so inter-referential that to ignore or to minimise the importance of the latter is to miss valuable insight into the former. This is a fine effort, and a boon to intructors. Finneran has chosen wisely and well, and both students and instructors will be grateful that such a volume is now available to us all.' - Christina Hunt, The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, Irish Studies Review

'Richard Finneran's The Yeats Rader (revised edition) is a must.' - William Baker, Professor, Department of English/University Libraries, Northern Illinois University, USA

Spis treści

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 Tower (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) On Baile's Strand (1903) Deirdre (1907) At the Hawk's Well (1917) The Words upon the Window-pane (1934) The Resurrection (1927) Purgatory (1939) The Death of Cuchulain (1939) AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS From Reveries Over Childhood and Youth (1916) From The Trembling of the Veil (1922) 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) APPENDIX First Published Text of Six Poems 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

O autorze

RICHARD J.FINNERAN is general editor, with George Mills Harper, for The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats; series editor of The Poems in the Cornell Yeats; and editor of Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies. He holds the Hodges Chair of Excellence at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; is a past President of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association; and is Executive Director of the Society for Textual Scholarship.