By William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran, George Bornstein
The accumulated Works of W. B. Yeats, quantity IV: Early Essays is a part of a fourteen-volume sequence lower than the overall editorship of eminent Yeats students George Bornstein and George generators Harper. those volumes comprise almost the entire Nobel laureate's released paintings, in authoritative texts with wide explanatory notes.
Early Essays, edited by way of the the world over esteemed Yeats students George Bornstein and the overdue Richard J. Finneran, comprises the contents of the 2 most vital collections of Yeats's serious prose, Ideas of fine and Evil(1903) and The slicing of an Agate(1912, 1919). one of the seminal essays are issues of Blake, Shakespeare, Shelley, Spenser, and Synge, in addition to a longer dialogue of the japanese Noh theatre. the 1st scholarly version of those fabrics, Early Essays deals a corrected textual content and particular annotation of all allusions. numerous appendices assemble fabrics from early printings that have been later excluded, in addition to illuminating black-and-white illustrations.
Early Essays is a vital sourcebook for figuring out Yeats's profession as either author and literary critic, and for the advance of recent poetry and feedback. right here, Yeats works out lots of his key rules on poetry, politics, and the theater. He offers interpretations of writers severe to his improvement and provides a compelling imaginative and prescient of eire and the trendy global over the past decade of the 19th century and primary 20 years of the 20 th. As T. S. Eliot remarked, Yeats "was a type of few whose heritage is the historical past in their personal time, who're part of the realization of an age which can't be understood with out them." This quantity monitors a vital a part of that historical past.
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After the rare engraving by William Blake (Inferno V) SCRIBNER 1230 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 Compilation copyright © 2007 by Michael Yeats Notes and preparatory material copyright © 2007 by Richard Finneran and George Bornstein All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form. , used under license by Simon & Schuster, the publisher of this work. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865–1939. Early essays / W.
S. Jochum, Declan Kiely, Kerry Larson, Jerome McGann, James McGuire, William O’Donnell, James Olney, Jonathan Price, Ann Saddlemyer, and H. Wayne Storey. We owe a special debt to Jon Alan Lanham, who provided us with a copy of his doctoral dissertation, “A Critical Edition of Ideas of Good and Evil by W. B. , University of Toronto, 1976), which proved helpful throughout our work. We are also pleased to acknowledge help from librarians and curators at the following collections: Boston Museum of Fine Arts (Joan Cummins), British Museum (Richard Blurton, Michael Boggan, Timothy Clark, Christopher Fletcher, Antony Griffiths, Peter Higgs), Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at University of Texas at Austin (Elizabeth Garver, Kurt Heinzelman, Tom Staley), National Library of Ireland (Catherine Fahy, Peter Kenny, Dónal Ó Luanaigh), New York Public Library (Berg Collection: Isaac Gewirtz), University of London Library (Alun Ford), University of Michigan Library (Kathryn Beam, Peggy Daub, Franki Hand), University of New York at Stony Brook Yeats Archive (Kristen J.
Yeats had copies in hand no later than 4 December 1912, when he inscribed one to Allan Wade (Indiana University). There was no English edition, and notices of the American one were sparse. Stuart P. Sherman’s review in The Nation focused wholly on Synge and queried Yeats’s view of Synge’s evolution as a writer, while James W. 20. Unexpectedly, the volume also inspired a laudatory sonnet by Amy Lowell, “On ‘The Cutting of an Agate’ by W. B. ” 21. IV. The Cutting of an Agate (1919) An English edition of The Cutting of an Agate followed in 1919.