The Yeats reader : a portable compendium of poetry, drama, and prose

The Yeats reader A portable compendium of poetry, drama, and prose

W. B. Yeats, 1865-1939

Book - 2002

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 l...ater 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 Also included are selections from the memoirs left unpublished at his death and complete introductions written for a projected collection that never came to fruition.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.

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Subjects
Yeats, W. B. > (William Butler), > 1865-1939.
Ireland > Literary collections.
Published
New York : Scribner Poetry c2002.
Language
English
Main Author
W. B. Yeats, 1865-1939 (-)
Other Authors
Richard J. Finneran (-)
Edition
Rev. ed
Physical Description
xxii, 566 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN
9780743233156
9780743227988
  • Preface
  • Chronology
  • Poems
  • From Crossways (1889)
  • The Song of the Happy Shepherd
  • The Sad Shepherd
  • The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes
  • The Indian to his Love
  • The Falling of the Leaves
  • Ephemera
  • The Stolen Child
  • To an Isle in the Water
  • Down by the Salley Gardens
  • The Meditation of the Old Fisherman
  • From The Rose (1893)
  • To the Rose upon the Rood of Time
  • Fergus and the Druid
  • The Rose of the World
  • The Lake Isle of Innisfree
  • The Pity of Love
  • The Sorrow of Love
  • When You are Old
  • The White Birds
  • Who goes with Fergus?
  • The Man who dreamed of Faeryland
  • The Dedication to a Book of Stories selected from the Irish Novelists
  • The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner
  • The Two Trees
  • To Ireland in the Coming Times
  • From The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)
  • The Hosting of the Sidhe
  • The Lover tells of the Rose in his Heart
  • The Fish
  • The Song of Wandering Aengus
  • The Lover mourns for the Loss of Love
  • He reproves the Curlew
  • He remembers forgotten Beauty
  • A Poet to his Beloved
  • He gives his Beloved certain Rhymes
  • To his Heart, bidding it have no Fear
  • The Cap and Bells
  • He hears the Cry of the Sedge
  • He thinks of Those who have spoken Evil of his Beloved
  • The Lover pleads with his Friend for Old Friends
  • He wishes his Beloved were Dead
  • He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
  • From In the Seven Woods (1903)
  • In the Seven Woods
  • The Arrow
  • The Folly of being Comforted
  • Never give all the Heart
  • Adam''s Curse
  • Red Hanrahan''s Song about Ireland
  • The Old Men admiring Themselves in the Water
  • O do not Love Too Long
  • From The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)
  • His Dream
  • A Woman Homer sung
  • Words
  • No Second Troy
  • Reconciliation
  • The Fascination of What''s Difficult
  • A Drinking Song
  • The Coming of Wisdom with Time
  • On hearing that the Students of our New University have joined the Agitation against Immoral Literature
  • To a Poet, who would have me Praise certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine
  • The Mask
  • Upon a House shaken by the Land Agitation
  • All things can tempt me
  • Brown Penny
  • From Responsibilities (1914) [Introductory Rhymes]
  • To a Wealthy Man who promised a second Subscription to the Dublin Municipal Gallery if it were proved the People wanted Pictures
  • September
  • To a Friend whose Work has come to Nothing
  • Paudeen
  • When Helen lived
  • On Those that hated ''The Playboy of the Western World,''
  • The Three Beggars
  • Beggar to Beggar cried
  • The Witch
  • The Peacock
  • To a Child dancing in the Wind
  • Two Years Later
  • A Memory of Youth
  • Fallen Majesty
  • Friends
  • The Cold Heaven
  • That the Night come
  • The Magi
  • The Dolls
  • A Coat [Closing Rhyme]
  • From The Wild Swans at Coole (1917)
  • The Wild Swans at Coole
  • In Memory of Major Robert Gregory
  • An Irish Airman foresees his Death
  • Men improve with the Years
  • The Living Beauty
  • A Song
  • The Scholars
  • Lines written in Dejection
  • On Woman
  • The Fisherman
  • Memory
  • The People
  • Broken Dreams
  • A Deep-sworn Vow
  • The Balloon of the Mind
  • On being asked for a War Poem
  • Ego Dominus Tuus
  • The Double Vision of Michael Robartes
  • From Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921)
  • Michael Robartes and the Dancer
  • Easter, 1916
  • Sixteen Dead Men
  • The Rose Tree
  • On a Political Prisoner
  • The Second Coming
  • A Prayer for my Daughter
  • To be carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee From The Tower (1928)
  • Sailing to Byzantium
  • The Tower
  • Meditations in Time of Civil War
  • Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen
  • A Prayer for my Son
  • Fragments
  • Leda and the Swan
  • Among School Children
  • From ''Oedipus at Colonus''
  • All Souls'' Night
  • From The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)
  • In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz
  • A Dialogue of Self and Soul
  • Coole Park
  • Coole and Ballylee
  • The Choice
  • Mohini Chatterjee
  • Byzantium
  • Vacillation
  • Crazy Jane and the Bishop
  • Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop
  • Her Anxiety
  • Lullaby
  • After Long Silence
  • Father and Child
  • Parting
  • Her Vision in the Wood
  • A Last Confession
  • From the ''Antigone''
  • From Parnell''s Funeral and Other Poems (1935)
  • Parnell''s Funeral
  • A Prayer for Old Age
  • Ribh at the Tomb of Baile and Aillinn
  • The Four Ages of Man
  • Meru
  • From New Poems (1938)
  • The Gyres
  • Lapis Lazuli
  • Imitated from the Japanese
  • An Acre of Grass
  • What Then?
  • Beautiful Lofty Things
  • Come Gather Round Me Parnellites
  • The Great Day
  • Parnell
  • The Spur
  • The Municipal Gallery Re-visited
  • Are You Content
  • From [Last Poems, 1938-39]
  • Under Ben Bulben
  • The Black Tower
  • Cuchulain Comforted
  • The Statues
  • Long-legged Fly
  • High Talk
  • Man and the Echo
  • The Circus Animals'' Desertion
  • Politics
  • Plays [Dates and order follow The Plays (2001)]
  • Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902)
  • On Baile''s Strand (1904)
  • Deirdre (1907)
  • At the Hawk''s Well (1917)
  • The Words upon the Window-pane (1930)
  • The Resurrection (1931)
  • Purgatory (1938)
  • The Death of Cuchulain (1939)
  • Autobiographical Writings
  • From Reveries Over Childhood and Youth (1916)
  • From The Trembling of the Veil (1922)
  • From Book I: Four Years, 1887-1891
  • From Book II: Ireland After Parnell
  • From Book III: Hodos Chameliontos
  • From Book IV: The Tragic Generation
  • From Book V: The Stirring of the Bones
  • 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)
  • What is ''Popular Poetry''?
  • From Magic
  • William Blake and the Imagination
  • The Symbolism of Poetry
  • Ireland and the Arts
  • From Samhain (1903)
  • The Reform of the Theatre
  • From Samhain (1908)
  • First Principles
  • The Tragic Theatre
  • From Per Amica Silentia Lunae (1918)
  • From Anima Hominis
  • From Anima Mundi
  • From A Vision (1925, 1937)
  • From Introduction
  • From Book I: The Great Wheel
  • From
  • Part 1. The Principal Symbol
  • From
  • Part 2. Examination of the Wheel
  • From
  • Part 3. The Twenty-eight Incarnations
  • From Book V: Dove or Swan
  • Essays for the Scribner Edition (1937)
  • Introduction
  • Introduction to Essays
  • Introduction to Plays
  • From On the Boiler (1939)
  • From Preliminaries
Review by Booklist Review

It is possible only to quibble with editor Finneran (e.g., where is that fine poem "The Host of the Air" ?) about the selections he has made for this excellent single-volume edition of one of the most important writers of the twentieth century. Not only are the major poems here, together with concise and useful notes, but Finneran also includes a significant selection of the plays as well as the most important of Yeats' critical and autobiographical prose. The inclusion of the last, in particular, gives breadth and substance to the collection, as well as allows the unversed reader to follow the development of Yeats' thought, which is only obliquely discernible in the poems. The sheer volume of Yeats' total work can be discouraging to new readers or students. For them, this is a perfect introduction. --Patricia Monaghan

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.
Review by Library Journal Review

This already marvelous 1977 portable containing a wide selection of Yeats's prose, poetry, and drama has been revised and expanded by editor Finneran to include 57 additional poems. The appendix also has been updated to provide early and later drafts of six works for easy comparison. A good thing made even better. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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