World of Books - Find your book here

COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS

COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS

William Butler Yeats

Revised and corrected, this edition includes Yeats's own notes on his poetry, complemented by explanatory notes from esteemed Yeats scholar Richard J. Finneran.
Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats

Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats

William Butler Yeats

This book is most compelling as Yeats's own account of the growth of his poetic imagination. Yeats thought that a poet leads a life of allegory, and that his works are comments upon it.
Mythologies

Mythologies

William Butler Yeats

This is the definitive edition of W.B. Yeats's folklore & early prose fiction, edited according to Yeats's final textual instructions.
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays

The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays

William Butler Yeats

This volume opens with Yeats's introduction for an unpublished Scribner collection and encompasses all of his dramatic work, from The Countess Cathleen to The Death of Cuchulain.
The Identity Of Yeats

The Identity Of Yeats

Richard Ellmann

Through his knowledge of Yeats’ life as well as his published and unpublished work, Ellmann recreates Yeats’ ways of thinking, seeing, and writing and clarifies his difficult poems.
Reframing Yeats: Genre, Allusion and History

Reframing Yeats: Genre, Allusion and History

Charles I. Armstrong

8 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 'Michael Robartes and the Dancer' is one of several ekphrastic poems discussed in Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux, 'Yeats's Poems on Pictures', The Yeats Journal of Korea, 38 , ...
Yeats Annual

Yeats Annual

Warwick Gould

Photograph reproduced by courtesy of the photographer, Rosita Fanto. Anne and Michael Yeats at Roquebrune during the Princess Grace Irish Library International Conference, “Yeats the European”, May 1987. Photograph reproduced by ...
Yeats and American Poetry: The Tradition of the Self

Yeats and American Poetry: The Tradition of the Self

Terence Diggory

This work is designed to show a double influence: first, that of American poets, especially Whitman, on W. B. Yeats, and, second, of Yeats on a wide range of American poets who began their careers during the first decades of the century.
Poems and Contexts: Yeats Annual No. 16: A Special Number

Poems and Contexts: Yeats Annual No. 16: A Special Number

More editions

We have reused Rosita Fanto's affecting study of Richard Ellmann beside the Edmund Dulac memorial plaque to W. B. Yeats in Roquebrune cemetery, 26 May 1985, from Yeats Annual 8. The Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art ...
Editing Yeats's Poems: A Reconsideration

Editing Yeats's Poems: A Reconsideration

Richard J Finneran

This study is a companion to the revised edition of W.B.Yeats, The Poems: A New Edition. Professor Finneran outlines the complex problems facing an editor of Yeats's poetry and explains the solutions adopted in the new text.
William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

Selected works by William Butler Yeats appear alongside original artwork depicting the major themes of the poems.
Yeats and Joyce: Cyclical History and the Reprobate Tradition

Yeats and Joyce: Cyclical History and the Reprobate Tradition

Alistair Cormack

Challenging characterisations of Joyce and Yeats as polar opposites, Alistair Cormack shows that Joyce and Yeats independently challenged a linearity and materialism they identified with empire and celebrated Ireland as destabilising the ...
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays

The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays

William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran, George Bornstein. THE COLLECTED WORKS OF W. B. YEATS George Mills Harper and George Bomstein, General Editors Volume I The Poems ed. Richard J. Finneran Volume II The Plays ed.
Influence and Confluence: Yeats Annual No. 17: A Special Number

Influence and Confluence: Yeats Annual No. 17: A Special Number

More editions

The latest in a renowned research-level series, this volume focuses on Yeats's multifarious (especially occult) reading and his iconography.
Religion and Aesthetic Experience in Joyce and Yeats

Religion and Aesthetic Experience in Joyce and Yeats

T. Balinisteanu

This monograph is based on archival research and close readings of James Joyce's and W. B. Yeats's poetics and political aesthetics.
The Poems

The Poems

William Butler Yeats

This volume provides accurate texts of all the poems by Yeats published in his lifetime or scheduled for publication as of his death on January 28, 1939, including those omitted from earlier collections.
Yeats and the Heroic Ideal

Yeats and the Heroic Ideal

Alex Zwerdling

"The difficulties in a democracy have been a central theme in much of Western literature during the twentieth century--a theme that finds explicit presentation in the writings of W.B. Yeats.
Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies 1999

Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies 1999

Richard J. Finneran

84l: K. P. S. Jochum: "A Yeats Bibliograpby for l995-l997" 37-l57; Patricia L. Bradley (compl: "Dissertation Abstracts. l997" l58-73; Mary FitzGerald: "Passim: Brief Notes." 2l8-25. 99-950. Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies. Volume ...
Collected Poems

Collected Poems

William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats ( 13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature.
Yeats and the Nineties: Yeats Annual No. 14: A Special Number

Yeats and the Nineties: Yeats Annual No. 14: A Special Number

More editions

Francesca Bugliani-Knox FOREIGN STUDIES of modern English-language authors are frequently met with distrust. There are, perhaps, some valid reasons for this. First, translations are all too often flawed and even the best translations ...
Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form

Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form

Helen Vendler

Presents an examination of lyric form in the poetry of W. B. Yeats.
Critical Companion to William Butler Yeats: A Literary ...

Critical Companion to William Butler Yeats: A Literary ...

David A. Ross

Examines the life and writings of William Butler Yeats, including a biographical sketch, detailed synopses of his works, social and historical influences, and more.
Yeats and Joyce: Cyclical History and the Reprobate Tradition

Yeats and Joyce: Cyclical History and the Reprobate Tradition

Alistair Cormack

The work of Irish critics – in particular Declan Kiberd, Emer Nolan and Seamus Deane – has radically corrected the orthodox AngloAmerican academic constructions of Yeats and Joyce, one would hope, forever. Indeed, it would probably be ...
The Intermedial Experience of Horror: Suspended Failures

The Intermedial Experience of Horror: Suspended Failures

J. Toikkanen

92. 3 M. L. Rosenthal (1978) Sailing into the Unknown: Yeats, Pound, and Eliot ( New York, NY: Oxford UniversityPress) p.27. 4 Elizabeth Bergmann Loizeaux ( 2003) Yeats and the Visual Arts (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press) p.6 ...
The Tower: A Facsimile Edition

The Tower: A Facsimile Edition

William Butler Yeats

The first edition of W. B. Yeats's The Tower appeared in bookstores in London on Valentine's Day, 1928. His English publisher printed just 2,000 copies of this slender volume of twenty-one poems, priced at six shillings.
Yeats's Ghosts: The Secret Life of W.B. Yeats

Yeats's Ghosts: The Secret Life of W.B. Yeats

Brenda Maddox

Renowned biographer Brenda Maddox examines the poet's life through the prism of his personal obsession with the supernatural and otherworldly.
After Yeats and Joyce: Reading Modern Irish Literature

After Yeats and Joyce: Reading Modern Irish Literature

Neil Corcoran

Irish literature after Yeats and Joyce, from the 1920s onwards, includes texts which have been the subject of much contention.
Violence, Narrative and Myth in Joyce and Yeats: Subjective ...

Violence, Narrative and Myth in Joyce and Yeats: Subjective ...

T. Balinisteanu

Is the material world an art text? This book answers these questions by examining modernist literature, especially James Joyce and W.B. Yeats, in the context of anarchist intellectual thought and Georges Sorel's theory of social myth.
Violence, Narrative and Myth in Joyce and Yeats: Subjective ...

Violence, Narrative and Myth in Joyce and Yeats: Subjective ...

Tudor Balinisteanu

Is the material world an art text? This book answers these questions by examining modernist literature, especially James Joyce and W.B. Yeats, in the context of anarchist intellectual thought and Georges Sorel's theory of social myth.
A Reader's Guide to William Butler Yeats

A Reader's Guide to William Butler Yeats

John Eugene Unterecker

A Reader's Guide to William Butler Yeats not only provides the background needed for an understanding of the works but also reveals the structure of images and meanings of the various lyrics.

who called from an unknown number?