Product Description: Prefaces and Introductions, Volume VI of The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, brings together for the first time thirty-two introductions by Yeats to the works of such literary greats as William Blake, J.M. Synge, Lady Gregory, Oscar Wilde, Oliver St...read more

Product Description: The Cornell Yeats edition of the poetry collection, Responsibilities, features the only surviving example of Ezra Pound and the author collaboratively revising a poem by Yeats. Working on a set of page proofs of "The Two Kings"—one of the poems in the volume—while they shared Stone Cottage in Sussex during the winter of 1913–1914, Pound wrote proposed revisions and Yeats then reacted to them, accepting some, changing some, and rejecting some...read more

Collects all of the Nobel laureate's published work and includes additional notes and criticisms. (view table of contents)

Compiling nineteen essays and introductions, a volume with explanatory notes includes Per Amica Silentia Lunae and On the Boiler as well as introductions on Shelley and Balzac and essays on Irish poetry and politics.

This volume in the series brings together for the first time 32 introductions written for anthologies that Yeats edited or that he wrote as introductions for books by other writers. The introductions span the full length of his career. Topics range from Irish legends and folklore to the design of graceful new Irish coins. The authors discussed include William Blake, J.M.Synge, Lady Gregory, Oscar Wilde, Oliver St John Gogarty, Lionel Johnson and Rabindranath Tagore.

Briefly recounts Yeats' life, analyzes major poems from each period of his career, and assesses his place in literature