Yeats' Poetry and Prose
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...
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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.
IntroductionxiA Note on the TextsxxiAcknowledgmentsxxvPoems1from Crossways (1889)The Song of the Happy Shepherd3The Sad Shepherd4The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes5The Indian to His Love6The Falling of the Leaves6Ephemera (2 versions)7The Stolen Child8To an Isle in the Water10Down by the Salley Gardens10The Meditation of the Old Fisherman11from the Rose (1892)To the Rose upon the Rood of Time12Fergus and the Druid13The Rose of the World14The Lake Isle of Innisfree15The Pity of Love15The Sorrow of Love (2 versions)16When You are Old17The White Birds17[Who goes with Fergus?]18The Dedication to a Book of Stories selected from the Irish Novelists (2 versions)18The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner (2 versions)20To Ireland in the Coming Times21from the Wind Among the Reeds (1899)The Hosting of the Sidhe23The Lover tells of the Rose in his Heart23The Fisherman [The Fish]24The Song of Wandering Aengus24The Lover mourns for the Loss of Love25He reproves the Curlew25He remembers Forgotten Beauty25A Poet to his Beloved26He gives his Beloved certain Rhymes26To my Heart, bidding it have no Fear27The Cap and Bells27He hears the Cry of the Sedge28He thinks of those who have Spoken Evil of his Beloved28The Lover pleads with his Friend for Old Friends29He wishes his Beloved were Dead29He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven29from in the Seven Woods (1903)In the Seven Woods30The Arrow30The Folly of Being Comforted31Never Give all the Heart31Adam's Curse32Red Hanrahan's Song about Ireland33The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water33O Do Not Love Too Long34from the Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)His Dream35A Woman Homer Sung35The Consolation [Words]36No Second Troy37Reconciliation37The Fascination of What's Difficult37A Drinking Song38The Coming of Wisdom with Time38On hearing that the Students of our New University have joined the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Agitation against Immoral Literature38To a Poet, who would have me Praise certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine39The Mask39Upon a House shaken by the Land Agitation40All Things can Tempt Me40The Young Man's Song [Brown Penny]40from Responsibilities (1914)[Introductory Rhymes]42To a Wealthy Man who promised a Second Subscription to the Dublin Municipal Gallery if it were proved the People wanted Pictures43September 191344To a Friend whose Work has come to Nothing45Paudeen45The Three Beggars46Beggar to Beggar Cried47I.The Witch48II.The Peacock48To a Child Dancing in the Wind49[Two Years Later]49Fallen Majesty50Friends50The Cold Heaven51The Magi51The Dolls52A Coat52[Closing Rhymes]53from the Wild Swans at Coole (1917)The Wild Swans at Coole54In Memory of Major Robert Gregory55An Irish Airman Foresees his Death58Men Improve with the Years58The Living Beauty59A Song59The Scholars (2 versions)60Lines Written in Dejection61On Woman61The Fisherrnan62The People63Broken Dreams64The Balloon of the Mind65On being asked for a War Poem65Ego Dominus Tuus66The Double Vision of Michael Robartes68from Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921)Michael Robartes and the Dancer71Easter, 191673On a Political Prisoner75The Second Coming76A Prayer for my Daughter76To be Carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee79from the Tower (1928)Sailing to Byzantium80The Tower81Meditations in Time of Civil War86Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen92A Prayer for my Son95Leda and the Swan96Among School Children97All Souls' Night99from the Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz102A Dialogue of Self and Soul103Blood and the Moon105Coole Park, 1929106The Choice107Byzantium108Vacillation109Crazy Jane talks with the Bishop112Father and Child112from a Full Moon in March (1935)A Prayer for Old Age113The Four Ages of Man113from New Poems (1938)The Gyres114Lapis Lazuli115Imitated from the Japanese116What Then?116Beautiful Lofty Things117Come Gather Round Me Parnellites118The Great Day119Parnell119The Spur119The Municipal Gallery Re-visited119from Last Poems (1939)Under Ben Bulben122The Black Tower125Long-legged Fly126High Talk126Man and the Echo127The Circus Animals' Desertion128Politics130Plays131Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902)133On Baile's Strand (1903)141At the Hawk's Well (1917)160Purgatory (1939)169Prose175Prose Fiction and Folklore Writingsfrom The Celtic Twilight (1893)This Book177Belief and Unbelief178Drumcliff and Rosses179from The Celtic Twilight (1902)'Dust hath closed Helen's Eye'183Enchanted Woods188By the Roadside190from The Secret Rose (1897)The Crucifixion of the Outcast192The Old Men of the Twilight197from Stories of Red Hanrahan (1904)The Twisting of the Rope200The Death of Hanrahan205Autobiographical Writingsfrom Reveries Over Childhood and Youth (1916)210from The Trembling of the Veil (1922)from Book I. Four Years: 1887-1891219from Book II. Ireland after Parnell222from Memoris: Autobiography (written 1916-17, published 1972)225from The Trembling of the Veil (1922)from Book III. Hodos Chameliontos240from Book IV. The Tragic Generation242from Book V. The Stirring of the Bones244from Dramatis Personae, 1896-1902 (1935)247from Memoirs: Journal (written 1909, published 1972)250from Pages from a Diary Written in Nineteen Hundred and Thirty (1944)254Critical WritingsHopes and Fears for Irish Literature (1892)258The De-Anglicising of Ireland (1892)261from The Message of the Folk-lorist (1893)262from The Celtic Element in Literature (1898)264The Irish Literary Theatre (1899)267from Irish Language and Irish Literature (1900)269from The Symbolism of Poetry (1900)271from Magic (1901)275The Reform of the Theatre (1903)277On Taking 'The Playboy' to London (1907)279The Play of Modern Manners (1908)279A Tower on the Apennines (1908)280from Poetry and Tradition (1908)281from First Principles (1908)282from Per Amica Silentia Lunae (1918)from Anima Hominis285from Anima Mundi287from A People's Theatre (1919)290from The Bounty of Sweden (1925)292from Introduction to The Oxford Book of Modern Verse (1936)293from A Vision (1937)from Introduction298from Book I: The Great Wheel299Essays for the Scribner Edition of Yeats's Collected Works (1937)Introduction300from Introduction to Essays312Introduction to Plays313from On the Boiler (1939)from Preliminaries315from To-morrow's Revolution316CriticismCriticism 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]323from Vale325[Review of The Wild Swans at Coole]327The Poetry of W. B. Yeats327Yeats and Ireland331Recent Critical and Biographical StudiesThe Prelude334[Yeats and the Occult]336Two Years: Bedford Park 1887-1889339Revolt into Style--Yeatsian Poetics340Yeats's Waves346The Elegiac Love Poems: A Woman Dead and Gon(n)e349The Wind Among the Reeds356Technique in the Earlier Poems of Yeats358Yeats's "Written Speech": Writing, Hearing and Performance366Yeats and the Lettered Page370The Taste of Salt 1902-1903379The Aesthetics of Antinomy382W. B. Yeats: Cultural Nationalism387"Easter, 1916" and the Balladic Elegies394Shrill Voices, Accursed Opinions399"Friendship Is the Only House I Have": Lady Gregory and W. B. Yeats407The Passionate Syntax413Hawk and Butterfly: The Double Vision of The Wild Swans at Coole (1917, 1919)416W. B. Yeats and Thoor Ballylee429In the Bedroom of the Big House439Between Hatred and Desire: Sexuality and Subterfuge in "A Prayer for my Daughter"444The Rhetorical Question: "Among School Children"455The Resistance to Sentimentality: Yeats, de Man, and the Aesthetic Education457Desire and Hunger in "Among School Children"458Patronage and Creative Exchange: Yeats, Lady Gregory, and the Economy of Indebtedness471Away477The Rule of Kindred482Politics and Public Life484Yeats: A Chronology489Bibliographical and Textual Appendix495Selected Bibliography511Index of Titles and First Lines of Poems515
