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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.
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.
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.
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.
Family Secrets: William Butler Yeats and His Relatives

Family Secrets: William Butler Yeats and His Relatives

William Michael Murphy

William Butler Yeats and His Relatives William Michael Murphy ... For an excellent summary of the relationship, see William Dumbleton, "William Morris and the Yeatses," an unpublished paper read at Albany Institute of History and Art, 16 Apr.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Later Essays

Later Essays

William Butler Yeats

This definitive edition includes full explanatory notes and provides the first carefully researched, reliable texts of these twenty-one works.
The Major Works

The Major Works

William Butler Yeats

This authoritative edition was first published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode.
Proceedings

Proceedings

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Butler, Henry, Melbourne, Australia. Butler, Captain Vere Alban, Inspector of Police, Port Louis, Mauritius. Butler, Major-General, Sir William F., K.C.B. Butt, J. M., Bank of New Zealand, Auckland, New Zealand. Butterton, William, M.Inst. C.E., ...
The Tower (1928): Manuscript Materials

The Tower (1928): Manuscript Materials

William Butler Yeats

Materials include transcriptions and photographs of the earliest recoverable drafts and selected transcriptions from the most interesting manuscripts and annotated typescripts.
Poets Thinking

Poets Thinking

Helen Vendler

The four poets taken up in this volume--Alexander Pope, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and William Butler Yeats--come from three centuries and three nations, and their styles of thinking are characteristically idiosyncratic.
Ralph Adams Cram: An architect's four quests : medieval, ...

Ralph Adams Cram: An architect's four quests : medieval, ...

Douglass Shand-Tucci

But the first production to debut in Cram's new playhouse — surely with the architect present — was one that opened in 1918: three one-act plays by William Butler Yeats, featuring the magnetic and handsome English actor Leslie Buswell, the ...
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 , ...
Small Press Record of Books in Print

Small Press Record of Books in Print

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... William Butler Yeats, The Ecco Press, 1989 160pp; pa/$8 95 (ISDN 0-88001- 208-0). A critical study of the work of Nolx-1 Prize winning Irish poet Donohugh. Bea, Kauai: A Paradise Guide (see Donohugh. Don) Donohugh, Don, Donohugh,  ...
The Victorians at war, 1815-1914: an encyclopedia of British ...

The Victorians at war, 1815-1914: an encyclopedia of British ...

Harold E. Raugh

Butler, Lady Elizabeth Gordon in Khartoum, asked for Burnaby s services, but Field Marshal H.R.H. Prince George E, ... (1965) Butler, Lady Elizabeth See Artists, War; Butler, Lieutenant General Sir William F. Butler, Lieutenant General Sir ...
William Francis Butler: A Life, 1838-1910

William Francis Butler: A Life, 1838-1910

Martin Ryan

Chapter Five THE WHITE MAN'S GRAVE Towards the end of his life, in the rural tranquillity of Bansha across the river Suir from Ballyslatteen, Lieutenant-General Sir William F. Butler, working on his autobiography, reminisced on his ...
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

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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 ...

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