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Yeats' Poetry and Prose: A Norton Critical Edition / Edition 1
by William Butler Yeats, James Pethica
William Butler Yeats
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- 9780393974973
- Pub. Date:
- 03/03/2000
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- Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
- ISBN-10:
- 0393974979
- ISBN-13:
- 9780393974973
- Pub. Date:
- 03/03/2000
- Publisher:
- Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Yeats' Poetry and Prose: A Norton Critical Edition / Edition 1
by William Butler Yeats, James Pethica
William Butler Yeats
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Overview
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.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780393974973 |
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Publisher: | Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc. |
Publication date: | 03/03/2000 |
Series: | Norton Critical Editions Series |
Edition description: | First Edition |
Pages: | 544 |
Sales rank: | 681,760 |
Product dimensions: | 5.70(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.60(d) |
About the Author
James Pethica has taught at Williams College and at the University of Richmond. Currently a Fellow at the Oakley Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Williams College, he is at work on the authorized biography of Lady Gregory.
Table of Contents
Introduction | xi | |
A Note on the Texts | xxi | |
Acknowledgments | xxv | |
Poems | 1 | |
from Crossways (1889) | ||
The Song of the Happy Shepherd | 3 | |
The Sad Shepherd | 4 | |
The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes | 5 | |
The Indian to His Love | 6 | |
The Falling of the Leaves | 6 | |
Ephemera (2 versions) | 7 | |
The Stolen Child | 8 | |
To an Isle in the Water | 10 | |
Down by the Salley Gardens | 10 | |
The Meditation of the Old Fisherman | 11 | |
from the Rose (1892) | ||
To the Rose upon the Rood of Time | 12 | |
Fergus and the Druid | 13 | |
The Rose of the World | 14 | |
The Lake Isle of Innisfree | 15 | |
The Pity of Love | 15 | |
The Sorrow of Love (2 versions) | 16 | |
When You are Old | 17 | |
The White Birds | 17 | |
[Who goes with Fergus?] | 18 | |
The Dedication to a Book of Stories selected from the Irish Novelists (2 versions) | 18 | |
The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner (2 versions) | 20 | |
To Ireland in the Coming Times | 21 | |
from the Wind Among the Reeds (1899) | ||
The Hosting of the Sidhe | 23 | |
The Lover tells of the Rose in his Heart | 23 | |
The Fisherman [The Fish] | 24 | |
The Song of Wandering Aengus | 24 | |
The Lover mourns for the Loss of Love | 25 | |
He reproves the Curlew | 25 | |
He remembers Forgotten Beauty | 25 | |
A Poet to his Beloved | 26 | |
He gives his Beloved certain Rhymes | 26 | |
To my Heart, bidding it have no Fear | 27 | |
The Cap and Bells | 27 | |
He hears the Cry of the Sedge | 28 | |
He thinks of those who have Spoken Evil of his Beloved | 28 | |
The Lover pleads with his Friend for Old Friends | 29 | |
He wishes his Beloved were Dead | 29 | |
He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven | 29 | |
from in the Seven Woods (1903) | ||
In the Seven Woods | 30 | |
The Arrow | 30 | |
The Folly of Being Comforted | 31 | |
Never Give all the Heart | 31 | |
Adam's Curse | 32 | |
Red Hanrahan's Song about Ireland | 33 | |
The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water | 33 | |
O Do Not Love Too Long | 34 | |
from the Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910) | ||
His Dream | 35 | |
A Woman Homer Sung | 35 | |
The Consolation [Words] | 36 | |
No Second Troy | 37 | |
Reconciliation | 37 | |
The Fascination of What's Difficult | 37 | |
A Drinking Song | 38 | |
The Coming of Wisdom with Time | 38 | |
On hearing that the Students of our New University have joined the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Agitation against Immoral Literature | 38 | |
To a Poet, who would have me Praise certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine | 39 | |
The Mask | 39 | |
Upon a House shaken by the Land Agitation | 40 | |
All Things can Tempt Me | 40 | |
The Young Man's Song [Brown Penny] | 40 | |
from Responsibilities (1914) | ||
[Introductory Rhymes] | 42 | |
To a Wealthy Man who promised a Second Subscription to the Dublin Municipal Gallery if it were proved the People wanted Pictures | 43 | |
September 1913 | 44 | |
To a Friend whose Work has come to Nothing | 45 | |
Paudeen | 45 | |
The Three Beggars | 46 | |
Beggar to Beggar Cried | 47 | |
I. | The Witch | 48 |
II. | The Peacock | 48 |
To a Child Dancing in the Wind | 49 | |
[Two Years Later] | 49 | |
Fallen Majesty | 50 | |
Friends | 50 | |
The Cold Heaven | 51 | |
The Magi | 51 | |
The Dolls | 52 | |
A Coat | 52 | |
[Closing Rhymes] | 53 | |
from the Wild Swans at Coole (1917) | ||
The Wild Swans at Coole | 54 | |
In Memory of Major Robert Gregory | 55 | |
An Irish Airman Foresees his Death | 58 | |
Men Improve with the Years | 58 | |
The Living Beauty | 59 | |
A Song | 59 | |
The Scholars (2 versions) | 60 | |
Lines Written in Dejection | 61 | |
On Woman | 61 | |
The Fisherrnan | 62 | |
The People | 63 | |
Broken Dreams | 64 | |
The Balloon of the Mind | 65 | |
On being asked for a War Poem | 65 | |
Ego Dominus Tuus | 66 | |
The Double Vision of Michael Robartes | 68 | |
from Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) | ||
Michael Robartes and the Dancer | 71 | |
Easter, 1916 | 73 | |
On a Political Prisoner | 75 | |
The Second Coming | 76 | |
A Prayer for my Daughter | 76 | |
To be Carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee | 79 | |
from the Tower (1928) | ||
Sailing to Byzantium | 80 | |
The Tower | 81 | |
Meditations in Time of Civil War | 86 | |
Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen | 92 | |
A Prayer for my Son | 95 | |
Leda and the Swan | 96 | |
Among School Children | 97 | |
All Souls' Night | 99 | |
from the Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933) | ||
In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz | 102 | |
A Dialogue of Self and Soul | 103 | |
Blood and the Moon | 105 | |
Coole Park, 1929 | 106 | |
The Choice | 107 | |
Byzantium | 108 | |
Vacillation | 109 | |
Crazy Jane talks with the Bishop | 112 | |
Father and Child | 112 | |
from a Full Moon in March (1935) | ||
A Prayer for Old Age | 113 | |
The Four Ages of Man | 113 | |
from New Poems (1938) | ||
The Gyres | 114 | |
Lapis Lazuli | 115 | |
Imitated from the Japanese | 116 | |
What Then? | 116 | |
Beautiful Lofty Things | 117 | |
Come Gather Round Me Parnellites | 118 | |
The Great Day | 119 | |
Parnell | 119 | |
The Spur | 119 | |
The Municipal Gallery Re-visited | 119 | |
from Last Poems (1939) | ||
Under Ben Bulben | 122 | |
The Black Tower | 125 | |
Long-legged Fly | 126 | |
High Talk | 126 | |
Man and the Echo | 127 | |
The Circus Animals' Desertion | 128 | |
Politics | 130 | |
Plays | 131 | |
Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902) | 133 | |
On Baile's Strand (1903) | 141 | |
At the Hawk's Well (1917) | 160 | |
Purgatory (1939) | 169 | |
Prose | 175 | |
Prose Fiction and Folklore Writings | ||
from The Celtic Twilight (1893) | ||
This Book | 177 | |
Belief and Unbelief | 178 | |
Drumcliff and Rosses | 179 | |
from The Celtic Twilight (1902) | ||
'Dust hath closed Helen's Eye' | 183 | |
Enchanted Woods | 188 | |
By the Roadside | 190 | |
from The Secret Rose (1897) | ||
The Crucifixion of the Outcast | 192 | |
The Old Men of the Twilight | 197 | |
from Stories of Red Hanrahan (1904) | ||
The Twisting of the Rope | 200 | |
The Death of Hanrahan | 205 | |
Autobiographical Writings | ||
from Reveries Over Childhood and Youth (1916) | 210 | |
from The Trembling of the Veil (1922) | ||
from Book I. Four Years: 1887-1891 | 219 | |
from Book II. Ireland after Parnell | 222 | |
from Memoris: Autobiography (written 1916-17, published 1972) | 225 | |
from The Trembling of the Veil (1922) | ||
from Book III. Hodos Chameliontos | 240 | |
from Book IV. The Tragic Generation | 242 | |
from Book V. The Stirring of the Bones | 244 | |
from Dramatis Personae, 1896-1902 (1935) | 247 | |
from Memoirs: Journal (written 1909, published 1972) | 250 | |
from Pages from a Diary Written in Nineteen Hundred and Thirty (1944) | 254 | |
Critical Writings | ||
Hopes and Fears for Irish Literature (1892) | 258 | |
The De-Anglicising of Ireland (1892) | 261 | |
from The Message of the Folk-lorist (1893) | 262 | |
from The Celtic Element in Literature (1898) | 264 | |
The Irish Literary Theatre (1899) | 267 | |
from Irish Language and Irish Literature (1900) | 269 | |
from The Symbolism of Poetry (1900) | 271 | |
from Magic (1901) | 275 | |
The Reform of the Theatre (1903) | 277 | |
On Taking 'The Playboy' to London (1907) | 279 | |
The Play of Modern Manners (1908) | 279 | |
A Tower on the Apennines (1908) | 280 | |
from Poetry and Tradition (1908) | 281 | |
from First Principles (1908) | 282 | |
from Per Amica Silentia Lunae (1918) | ||
from Anima Hominis | 285 | |
from Anima Mundi | 287 | |
from A People's Theatre (1919) | 290 | |
from The Bounty of Sweden (1925) | 292 | |
from Introduction to The Oxford Book of Modern Verse (1936) | 293 | |
from A Vision (1937) | ||
from Introduction | 298 | |
from Book I: The Great Wheel | 299 | |
Essays for the Scribner Edition of Yeats's Collected Works (1937) | ||
Introduction | 300 | |
from Introduction to Essays | 312 | |
Introduction to Plays | 313 | |
from On the Boiler (1939) | ||
from Preliminaries | 315 | |
from To-morrow's Revolution | 316 | |
Criticism | ||
Criticism by Yeats's Contemporaries | ||
[Review of The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems] | 321 | |
[Review of Poems (1899) and The Wind Among the Reeds] | 321 | |
[Review of Responsibilities] | 323 | |
from Vale | 325 | |
[Review of The Wild Swans at Coole] | 327 | |
The Poetry of W. B. Yeats | 327 | |
Yeats and Ireland | 331 | |
Recent Critical and Biographical Studies | ||
The Prelude | 334 | |
[Yeats and the Occult] | 336 | |
Two Years: Bedford Park 1887-1889 | 339 | |
Revolt into Style--Yeatsian Poetics | 340 | |
Yeats's Waves | 346 | |
The Elegiac Love Poems: A Woman Dead and Gon(n)e | 349 | |
The Wind Among the Reeds | 356 | |
Technique in the Earlier Poems of Yeats | 358 | |
Yeats's "Written Speech": Writing, Hearing and Performance | 366 | |
Yeats and the Lettered Page | 370 | |
The Taste of Salt 1902-1903 | 379 | |
The Aesthetics of Antinomy | 382 | |
W. B. Yeats: Cultural Nationalism | 387 | |
"Easter, 1916" and the Balladic Elegies | 394 | |
Shrill Voices, Accursed Opinions | 399 | |
"Friendship Is the Only House I Have": Lady Gregory and W. B. Yeats | 407 | |
The Passionate Syntax | 413 | |
Hawk and Butterfly: The Double Vision of The Wild Swans at Coole (1917, 1919) | 416 | |
W. B. Yeats and Thoor Ballylee | 429 | |
In the Bedroom of the Big House | 439 | |
Between Hatred and Desire: Sexuality and Subterfuge in "A Prayer for my Daughter" | 444 | |
The Rhetorical Question: "Among School Children" | 455 | |
The Resistance to Sentimentality: Yeats, de Man, and the Aesthetic Education | 457 | |
Desire and Hunger in "Among School Children" | 458 | |
Patronage and Creative Exchange: Yeats, Lady Gregory, and the Economy of Indebtedness | 471 | |
Away | 477 | |
The Rule of Kindred | 482 | |
Politics and Public Life | 484 | |
Yeats: A Chronology | 489 | |
Bibliographical and Textual Appendix | 495 | |
Selected Bibliography | 511 | |
Index of Titles and First Lines of Poems | 515 |
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