Poems of W.B. Yeats: A New Selection

by A. Norman Jeffares

Overview

This selection of 239 poems is supported by a critical introduction, very full explanatory notes, a bibliographical summary of Yeats's life, maps, a glossary of Irish names and places and their pronunciation and a bibliography. For this second edition, the notes have been thoroughly revised and updated.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780333456613
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/06/1988
Edition description:	1988
Pages:	428
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.91(d)

About the Author

Norman Jeffares is an authority on Yeats and Anglo-Irish literary traditions. He was formerly Professor of English at the University of Stirling.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
PART 1: POEMS
The Craft of Poetry
Dreams
Irish Mythology Revived
Friends and Friendship
Irish Characters and Places
The Poet's Family
Moods and Meditations
Irish Narrative Poems
Anglo-Irish Attitudes
Love and Sex
The Supernatural
Form the Plays
Idiosyncrasies and Grotesqueries
Arcadian and Indian Poems
The Thought of A Vision
Adaptations and Translations
Age and After
Politics and Polemics
Bibliographical Summary
Notes
Appendices
Bibliography
Indexes.