Yeats's Poetry, Drama, and Prose

by Yeats, William Butler

• ISBN13: 9780393974973
• ISBN10: 0393974979
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-03
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
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Summary

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 North, Thomas Parkinson, Marjorie Perloff, James Pethica, Jahan Ramazani, Ronald Schuchard, Michael J. Sidnell, Anita Sokolsky, and Helen Vendler. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are included.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
A Note on the Texts	xxi
Acknowledgments	xxv
Poems	1	(130)
From Crossways (1889)
The Song of the Happy Shepherd	3	(1)
The Sad Shepherd	4	(1)
The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes	5	(1)
The Indian to His Love	6	(1)
The Falling of the Leaves	6	(1)
Ephemera (2 versions)	7	(1)
The Stolen Child	8	(2)
To an Isle in the Water	10	(1)
Down by the Salley Gardens	10	(1)
The Meditation of the Old Fisherman	11	(1)
From the Rose (1872)
To the Rose upon the Rood of Time	12	(1)
Fergus and the Druid	13	(1)
The Rose of the World	14	(1)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree	15	(1)
The Pity of Love	15	(1)
The Sorrow of Love (2 versions)	16	(1)
When You are Old	17	(1)
The White Birds	17	(1)
[Who goes with Fergus?]	18	(1)
The Dedication to a Book of Stories selected from the Irish Novelists (2 versions)	18	(2)
The Lamentation of the Old Pensioner (2 versions)	20	(1)
To Ireland in the Coming Times	21	(2)
From the Wind Among the Reeds (1899)
The Hosting of the Sidhe	23	(1)
The Lover tells of the Rose in his Heart	23	(1)
The Fisherman [The Fish]	24	(1)
The Song of Wandering Aengus	24	(1)
The Lover mourns for the Loss of Love	25	(1)
The reproves the Curlew	25	(1)
He remembers Forgotten Beauty	25	(1)
A Poet to his Beloved	26	(1)
He gives his Beloved certain Rhymes	26	(1)
To my Heart, bidding it have no Fear	27	(1)
The Cap and Bells	27	(1)
He hears the Cry of the Sedge	28	(1)
He thinks of those who have Spoken Evil of his Beloved	28	(1)
The Lover pleads with his Friend for Old Friends	29	(1)
He wishes his Beloved were Dead	29	(1)
He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven	29	(1)
From in the Seven Woods (1903)
In the Seven Woods	30	(1)
The Arrow	30	(1)
The Folly of Being Comforted	31	(1)
Never Give all the Heart	31	(1)
Adam's Curse	32	(1)
Red Hanrahan's Song about Ireland	33	(1)
The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water	33	(1)
O Do Not Love Too Long	34	(1)
From the Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)
His Dream	35	(1)
A Woman Homer Sung	35	(1)
The Consolation [Words]	36	(1)
No Second Troy	37	(1)
Reconciliation	37	(1)
The Fascination of What's Difficult	37	(1)
A Drinking Song	38	(1)
The Coming of Wisdom with Time	38	(1)
On hearing that the Students of our New University have joined the Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Agitation against Immoral Literature	38	(1)
To a Poet, who would have me Praise certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine	39	(1)
The Mask	39	(1)
Upon a House shaken by the Land Agitation	40	(1)
All Things can Tempt Me	40	(1)
The Young Man's Song [Brown Penny]	40	(2)
From Responsibilities (1914)
[Introductory Rhymes]	42	(1)
To a Wealthy Man who promised a Second Subscription to the Dublin Municipal Gallery if it were proved the People wanted Pictures	43	(1)
September 1913	44	(1)
To a Friend whose Work has come to Nothing	45	(1)
Paudeen	45	(1)
The Three Beggars	46	(1)
Beggar to Beggar Cried	47	(1)
I. The Witch	48	(1)
II. The Peacock	48	(1)
To a Child Dancing in the Wind	49	(1)
[Two Years Later]	49	(1)
Fallen Majesty	50	(1)
Friends	50	(1)
The Cold Heaven	51	(1)
The Magi	51	(1)
The Dolls	52	(1)
A Coat	52	(1)
[Closing Rhymes]	53	(1)
From the Wild Swans at Coole (1917)
The Wild Swans at Coole	54	(1)
In Memory of Major Robert Gregory	55	(3)
An Irish Airman Foresees his Death	58	(1)
Men Improve with the Years	58	(1)
The Living Beauty	59	(1)
A Song	59	(1)
The Scholars (2 versions)	60	(1)
Lines Written in Dejection	61	(1)
On Woman	61	(1)
The Fisherman	62	(1)
The People	63	(1)
Broken Dreams	64	(1)
The Balloon of the Mind	65	(1)
On being asked for a War Poem	65	(1)
Ego Dominus Tuus	66	(2)
The Double Vision of Michael Robartes	68	(3)
From Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921)
Michael Robartes and the Dancer	71	(2)
Easter, 1916	73	(2)
On a Political Prisoner	75	(1)
The Second Coming	76	(1)
A Prayer for my Daughter	76	(3)
To be Carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee	79	(1)
From the Tower (1928)
Sailing to Byzantium	80	(1)
The Tower	81	(5)
Meditations in Time of Civil War	86	(6)
Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen	92	(3)
A Prayer for my Son	95	(1)
Leda and the Swan	96	(1)
Among School Children	97	(2)
All Souls' Night	99	(3)
From the Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)
In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markiewicz	102	(1)
A Dialogue of Self and Soul	103	(2)
Blood and the Moon	105	(1)
Coole Park, 1929	106	(1)
The Choice	107	(1)
Byzantium	108	(1)
Vacillation	109	(3)
Crazy Jane talks with the Bishop	112	(1)
Father and Child	112	(1)
From a Full Moon in March (1935)
A Prayer for Old Age	113	(1)
The Four Ages of Man	113	(1)
From New Poems (1938)
The Gyres	114	(1)
Lapis Lazuli	115	(1)
Imitated from the Japanese	116	(1)
What Then?	116	(1)
Beautiful Lofty Things	117	(1)
Come Gather Round Me Parnellites	118	(1)
The Great Day	119	(1)
Parnell	119	(1)
The Spur	119	(1)
The Municipal Gallery Re-visited	119	(3)
From Last Poems (1939)
Under Ben Bulben	122	(3)
The Black Tower	125	(1)
Long-legged Fly	126	(1)
High Talk	126	(1)
Man and the Echo	127	(1)
The Circus Animals' Desertion	128	(2)
Politics	130	(1)
Plays	131	(44)
Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902)	133	(8)
On Baile's Strand (1903)	141	(19)
At the Hawk's Well (1917)	160	(9)
Purgatory (1939)	169	(6)
Prose	175	(314)
Prose Fiction and Folklore Writings
From The Celtic Twilight (1893)
This Book	177	(1)
Belief and Unbelief	178	(1)
Drumcliff and Rosses	179	(4)
From The Celtic Twilight (1902)
`Dust hath closed Helen's Eye'	183	(5)
Enchanted Woods	188	(2)
By the Roadside	190	(2)
From The Secret Rose (1897)
The Crucifixion of the Outcast	192	(5)
The Old Men of the Twilight	197	(3)
From Stories of Red Hanrahan (1904)
The Twisting of the Rope	200	(5)
The Death of Hanrahan	205	(5)
Autobiographical Writings
From Reveries Over Childhood and Youth (1916)	210	(9)
From The Trembling of the Veil (1922)
From Book I. Four Years: 1887--1891	219	(3)
From Book II. Ireland after Parnell	222	(3)
From Memoirs: Autobiography (written 1916--17, published 1972)	225	(15)
From The Trembling of the Veil (1922)
From Book III. Hodos Chameliontos	240	(2)
From Book IV. The Tragic Generation	242	(2)
From Book V. The Stirring of the Bones	244	(3)
From Dramatis Personae, 1896--1902 (1935)	247	(3)
From Memoirs: Journal (written 1909, published 1972)	250	(4)
From Pages from a Diary Written in Nineteen Hundred and Thirty (1944)	254	(4)
Critical Writings
Hopes and Fears for Irish Literature (1892)	258	(3)
The De-Anglicising of Ireland (1892)	261	(1)
From The Message of the Folk-lorist (1893)	262	(2)
From The Celtic Element in Literature (1898)	264	(3)
The Irish Literary Theatre (1899)	267	(2)
From Irish Language and Irish Literature (1900)	269	(2)
From The Symbolism of Poetry (1900)	271	(4)
From Magic (1901)	275	(2)
The Reform of the Theatre (1903)	277	(2)
On Taking `The Playboy' to London (1907)	279	(1)
The Play of Modern Manners (1908)	279	(1)
A Tower on the Apennines (1908)	280	(1)
From Poetry and Tradition (1908)	281	(1)
From First Principles (1908)	282	(3)
From Per Amica Silentia Lunae (1918)
From Anima Hominis	285	(2)
From Anima Mundi	287	(3)
From A People's Theatre (1919)	290	(2)
From The Bounty of Sweden (1925)	292	(1)
From Introduction to The Oxford Book of Modern Verse (1936)	293	(5)
From A Vision (1937)
From Introduction	298	(1)
From Book I: The Great Wheel	299	(1)
Essays for the Scribner Edition of Yeats's Collected Works (1937)
Introduction	300	(12)
From Introduction to Essays	312	(1)
Introduction to Plays	313	(2)
From On the Boiler (1939)
From Preliminaries	315	(1)
From To-morrow's Revolution	316	(5)
Criticism
Criticism by Yeats's Contemporaries
[Review of The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems]	321	(1)
Oscar Wilde
[Review of Poems (1899) and The Wind Among the Reeds]	321	(2)
Arthur Symons
[Review of Responsibilities]	323	(2)
Ezra Pound
From Vale	325	(2)
George Moore
[Review of The Wild Swans at Coole]	327	(1)
Marianne Moore
The Poetry of W. B. Yeats	327	(4)
T. S. Eliot
Yeats and Ireland	331	(3)
Maud Gonne
Recent Critical and Biographical Studies
The Prelude	334	(5)
Richard Ellmann
[Yeats and the Occult]	336	(3)
Two Years: Bedford Park 1887--1889	339	(1)
R. F. Foster
Revolt into Style---Yeatsian Poetics	340	(6)
Declan Kiberd
Yeats' Waves	346	(3)
Daniel Albright
The Elegiac Love Poems: A Woman Dead and Gon(n)e	349	(7)
Jahan Ramazani
The Wind Among the Reeds	356	(2)
Harold Bloom
Technique in the Earlier Poems of Yeats	358	(8)
Helen Vendler
Yeats's ``Written Speech'': Writing, Hearing and Performance	366	(4)
Michael J. Sidnell
Yeats and the Lettered page	370	(9)
Lucy McDiarmid
The Taste of Salt 1902--1903	379	(3)
R. F. Foster
The Aesthetics of Antinomy	382	(5)
George Bornstein
W. B. Yeats: Cultural Nationalism	387	(7)
Michael North
``Easter, 1916'' and the Balladic Elegies	394	(5)
Jahan Ramazani
Shrill Voices, Accursed Opinions	399	(8)
Elizabeth Butler Cullingford
``Friendship Is the Only House I Have'': Lady Gregory and W. B. Yeats	407	(6)
John Kelly
The Passionate Syntax	413	(3)
Thomas Parkinson
Hawk and Butterfly: The Double Vision of The Wild Swans at Coole (1917, 1919)	416	(13)
Ronald Schuchard
W. B. Yeats and Thoor Ballylee	429	(10)
Seamus Heaney
In the Bedroom of the Big House	439	(5)
Marjorie Howes
Between Hatred and Desire: Sexuality and Subterfuge in ``A Prayer for my Daughter''	444	(11)
Marjorie Perloff
The Rhetorical Question: ``Among School Children''	455	(2)
Paul de Man
The Resistance to Sentimentality: Yeats, de Man, and the Aesthetic Education	457	(1)
Anita Sokolsky
Desire and Hunger in ``Among School Children''	458	(13)
Elizabeth Butler Cullingford
Patronage and Creative Exchange: Yeats, Lady Gregory, and the Economy of Indebtedness	471	(6)
James L. Pethica
Away	477	(5)
Deirdre Toomey
The Rule of Kindred	482	(2)
Marjorie Howes
Politics and Public Life	484	(5)
Douglas Archibald
Yeats: A Chronology	489	(6)
Bibliographical and Textual Appendix	495	(16)
Selected Bibliography	511	(4)
Index of Titles and First Lines of Poems	515