Yeats's Poetry, Drama, and Prose

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9780393974973
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Copyright: 03/17/2000
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Summary

This brand new collection, impeccably edited by James Pethica, presents a comprehensive selection of Yeats's major contributions in poetry, drama, prose fiction, autobiography, and criticism. "Criticism" includes twenty-four interpretive essays by T. S. Eliot, Daniel Albright, Douglas Archibald, Harold Bloom, George Bornstein, Elizabeth Cullingford, Paul de Man, Richard Ellman, R. F. Foster, Stephen Gwynn, Seamus Heaney, Marjorie Howes, John Kelly, Declan Kiberd, Lucy McDiarmid, Michael North, Thomas Parkinson, Marjorie Perloff, James Pethica, Jahan Ramazani, Ronald Schuchard, Michael J. Sidnell, Anita Sokolsky, and Helen Vendler. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.

Introduction

A Note on the Texts

xxi

Acknowledgments

xxv

Poems

(130)

From Crossways (1889)

The Song of the Happy Shepherd

(1)

The Sad Shepherd

(1)

The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes

(1)

The Indian to His Love

(1)

The Falling of the Leaves

(1)

Ephemera (2 versions)

(1)

The Stolen Child

(2)

To an Isle in the Water

(1)

Down by the Salley Gardens

(1)

The Meditation of the Old Fisherman

(1)

From the Rose (1872)

To the Rose upon the Rood of Time

(1)

Fergus and the Druid

(1)

The Rose of the World

(1)

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

(1)

The Pity of Love

(1)

The Sorrow of Love (2 versions)

(1)

When You are Old

(1)

The White Birds

(1)

[Who goes with Fergus?]

(1)

The Dedication to a Book of Stories selected from the Irish Novelists (2 versions)

(2)

The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner (2 versions)

(1)

To Ireland in the Coming Times

(2)

From the Wind Among the Reeds (1899)

The Hosting of the Sidhe

(1)

The Lover tells of the Rose in his Heart

(1)

The Fisherman [The Fish]

(1)

The Song of Wandering Aengus

(1)

The Lover mourns for the Loss of Love

(1)

The reproves the Curlew

(1)

He remembers Forgotten Beauty

(1)

A Poet to his Beloved

(1)

He gives his Beloved certain Rhymes

(1)

To my Heart, bidding it have no Fear

(1)

The Cap and Bells

(1)

He hears the Cry of the Sedge

(1)

He thinks of those who have Spoken Evil of his Beloved

(1)

The Lover pleads with his Friend for Old Friends

(1)

He wishes his Beloved were Dead

(1)

He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

(1)

From in the Seven Woods (1903)

In the Seven Woods

(1)

The Arrow

(1)

The Folly of Being Comforted

(1)

Never Give all the Heart

(1)

Adam's Curse

(1)

Red Hanrahan's Song about Ireland

(1)

The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water

(1)

O Do Not Love Too Long

(1)

From the Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)

His Dream

(1)

A Woman Homer Sung

(1)

The Consolation [Words]

(1)

No Second Troy

(1)

Reconciliation

(1)

The Fascination of What's Difficult

(1)

A Drinking Song

(1)

The Coming of Wisdom with Time

(1)

On hearing that the Students of our New University have joined the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Agitation against Immoral Literature

(1)

To a Poet, who would have me Praise certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine

(1)

The Mask

(1)

Upon a House shaken by the Land Agitation

(1)

All Things can Tempt Me

(1)

The Young Man's Song [Brown Penny]

(2)

From Responsibilities (1914)

[Introductory Rhymes]

(1)

To a Wealthy Man who promised a Second Subscription to the Dublin Municipal Gallery if it were proved the People wanted Pictures

(1)

September 1913

(1)

To a Friend whose Work has come to Nothing

(1)

Paudeen

(1)

The Three Beggars

(1)

Beggar to Beggar Cried

(1)

I. The Witch

(1)

II. The Peacock

(1)

To a Child Dancing in the Wind

(1)

[Two Years Later]

(1)

Fallen Majesty

(1)

Friends

(1)

The Cold Heaven

(1)

The Magi

(1)

The Dolls

(1)

A Coat

(1)

[Closing Rhymes]

(1)

From the Wild Swans at Coole (1917)

The Wild Swans at Coole

(1)

In Memory of Major Robert Gregory

(3)

An Irish Airman Foresees his Death

(1)

Men Improve with the Years

(1)

The Living Beauty

(1)

A Song

(1)

The Scholars (2 versions)

(1)

Lines Written in Dejection

(1)

On Woman

(1)

The Fisherman

(1)

The People

(1)

Broken Dreams

(1)

The Balloon of the Mind

(1)

On being asked for a War Poem

(1)

Ego Dominus Tuus

(2)

The Double Vision of Michael Robartes

(3)

From Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921)

Michael Robartes and the Dancer

(2)

Easter, 1916

(2)

On a Political Prisoner

(1)

The Second Coming

(1)

A Prayer for my Daughter

(3)

To be Carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee

(1)

From the Tower (1928)

Sailing to Byzantium

(1)

The Tower

(5)

Meditations in Time of Civil War

(6)

Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen

(3)

A Prayer for my Son

(1)

Leda and the Swan

(1)

Among School Children

(2)

All Souls' Night

(3)

From the Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)

In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz

102

(1)

A Dialogue of Self and Soul

103

(2)

Blood and the Moon

105

(1)

Coole Park, 1929

106

(1)

The Choice

107

(1)

Byzantium

108

(1)

Vacillation

109

(3)

Crazy Jane talks with the Bishop

112

(1)

Father and Child

112

(1)

From a Full Moon in March (1935)

A Prayer for Old Age

113

(1)

The Four Ages of Man

113

(1)

From New Poems (1938)

The Gyres

114

(1)

Lapis Lazuli

115

(1)

Imitated from the Japanese

116

(1)

What Then?

116

(1)

Beautiful Lofty Things

117

(1)

Come Gather Round Me Parnellites

118

(1)

The Great Day

119

(1)

Parnell

119

(1)

The Spur

119

(1)

The Municipal Gallery Re-visited

119

(3)

From Last Poems (1939)

Under Ben Bulben

122

(3)

The Black Tower

125

(1)

Long-legged Fly

126

(1)

High Talk

126

(1)

Man and the Echo

127

(1)

The Circus Animals' Desertion

128

(2)

Politics

130

(1)

Plays

131

(44)

Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902)

133

(8)

On Baile's Strand (1903)

141

(19)

At the Hawk's Well (1917)

160

(9)

Purgatory (1939)

169

(6)

Prose

175

(314)

Prose Fiction and Folklore Writings

From The Celtic Twilight (1893)

This Book

177

(1)

Belief and Unbelief

178

(1)

Drumcliff and Rosses

179

(4)

From The Celtic Twilight (1902)

`Dust hath closed Helen's Eye'

183

(5)

Enchanted Woods

188

(2)

By the Roadside

190

(2)

From The Secret Rose (1897)

The Crucifixion of the Outcast

192

(5)

The Old Men of the Twilight

197

(3)

From Stories of Red Hanrahan (1904)

The Twisting of the Rope

200

(5)

The Death of Hanrahan

205

(5)

Autobiographical Writings

From Reveries Over Childhood and Youth (1916)

210

(9)

From The Trembling of the Veil (1922)

From Book I. Four Years: 1887--1891

219

(3)

From Book II. Ireland after Parnell

222

(3)

From Memoirs: Autobiography (written 1916--17, published 1972)

225

(15)

From The Trembling of the Veil (1922)

From Book III. Hodos Chameliontos

240

(2)

From Book IV. The Tragic Generation

242

(2)

From Book V. The Stirring of the Bones

244

(3)

From Dramatis Personae, 1896--1902 (1935)

247

(3)

From Memoirs: Journal (written 1909, published 1972)

250

(4)

From Pages from a Diary Written in Nineteen Hundred and Thirty (1944)

254

(4)

Critical Writings

Hopes and Fears for Irish Literature (1892)

258

(3)

The De-Anglicising of Ireland (1892)

261

(1)

From The Message of the Folk-lorist (1893)

262

(2)

From The Celtic Element in Literature (1898)

264

(3)

The Irish Literary Theatre (1899)

267

(2)

From Irish Language and Irish Literature (1900)

269

(2)

From The Symbolism of Poetry (1900)

271

(4)

From Magic (1901)

275

(2)

The Reform of the Theatre (1903)

277

(2)

On Taking `The Playboy' to London (1907)

279

(1)

The Play of Modern Manners (1908)

279

(1)

A Tower on the Apennines (1908)

280

(1)

From Poetry and Tradition (1908)

281

(1)

From First Principles (1908)

282

(3)

From Per Amica Silentia Lunae (1918)

From Anima Hominis

285

(2)

From Anima Mundi

287

(3)

From A People's Theatre (1919)

290

(2)

From The Bounty of Sweden (1925)

292

(1)

From Introduction to The Oxford Book of Modern Verse (1936)

293

(5)

From A Vision (1937)

From Introduction

298

(1)

From Book I: The Great Wheel

299

(1)

Essays for the Scribner Edition of Yeats's Collected Works (1937)

Introduction

300

(12)

From Introduction to Essays

312

(1)

Introduction to Plays

313

(2)

From On the Boiler (1939)

From Preliminaries

315

(1)

From To-morrow's Revolution

316

(5)

Criticism

Criticism by Yeats's Contemporaries

[Review of The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems]

321

(1)

Oscar Wilde

[Review of Poems (1899) and The Wind Among the Reeds]

321

(2)

Arthur Symons

[Review of Responsibilities]

323

(2)

Ezra Pound

From Vale

325

(2)

George Moore

[Review of The Wild Swans at Coole]

327

(1)

Marianne Moore

The Poetry of W. B. Yeats

327

(4)

T. S. Eliot

Yeats and Ireland

331

(3)

Maud Gonne

Recent Critical and Biographical Studies

The Prelude

334

(5)

Richard Ellmann

[Yeats and the Occult]

336

(3)

Two Years: Bedford Park 1887--1889

339

(1)

R. F. Foster

Revolt into Style---Yeatsian Poetics

340

(6)

Declan Kiberd

Yeats' Waves

346

(3)

Daniel Albright

The Elegiac Love Poems: A Woman Dead and Gon(n)e

349

(7)

Jahan Ramazani

The Wind Among the Reeds

356

(2)

Harold Bloom

Technique in the Earlier Poems of Yeats

358

(8)

Helen Vendler

Yeats's ``Written Speech'': Writing, Hearing and Performance

366

(4)

Michael J. Sidnell

Yeats and the Lettered page

370

(9)

Lucy McDiarmid

The Taste of Salt 1902--1903

379

(3)

R. F. Foster

The Aesthetics of Antinomy

382

(5)

George Bornstein

W. B. Yeats: Cultural Nationalism

387

(7)

Michael North

``Easter, 1916'' and the Balladic Elegies

394

(5)

Jahan Ramazani

Shrill Voices, Accursed Opinions

399

(8)

Elizabeth Butler Cullingford

``Friendship Is the Only House I Have'': Lady Gregory and W. B. Yeats

407

(6)

John Kelly

The Passionate Syntax

413

(3)

Thomas Parkinson

Hawk and Butterfly: The Double Vision of The Wild Swans at Coole (1917, 1919)

416

(13)

Ronald Schuchard

W. B. Yeats and Thoor Ballylee

429

(10)

Seamus Heaney

In the Bedroom of the Big House

439

(5)

Marjorie Howes

Between Hatred and Desire: Sexuality and Subterfuge in ``A Prayer for my Daughter''

444

(11)

Marjorie Perloff

The Rhetorical Question: ``Among School Children''

455

(2)

Paul de Man

The Resistance to Sentimentality: Yeats, de Man, and the Aesthetic Education

457

(1)

Anita Sokolsky

Desire and Hunger in ``Among School Children''

458

(13)

Elizabeth Butler Cullingford

Patronage and Creative Exchange: Yeats, Lady Gregory, and the Economy of Indebtedness

471

(6)

James L. Pethica

Away

477

(5)

Deirdre Toomey

The Rule of Kindred

482

(2)

Marjorie Howes

Politics and Public Life

484

(5)

Douglas Archibald

Yeats: A Chronology

489

(6)

Bibliographical and Textual Appendix

495

(16)

Selected Bibliography

511

(4)

Index of Titles and First Lines of Poems

515

Yeats's Poetry, Drama, and Prose

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