Responsibilities: Family Strategies in the Principality of Salerno During the Norman Period, 1077-1194 (Cornell Yeats) - Hardcover

Yeats, W B

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0801441072 ISBN 13: 9780801441073

Publisher: Cornell University Press, 2003

Synopsis

The Cornell Yeats edition of the poetry collection, Responsibilities, features the only surviving example of Ezra Pound and the author collaboratively revising a poem by Yeats. Working on a set of page proofs of "The Two Kings"―one of the poems in the volume―while they shared Stone Cottage in Sussex during the winter of 1913–1914, Pound wrote proposed revisions and Yeats then reacted to them, accepting some, changing some, and rejecting some.

This process of collaborative revision is a precursor of Pound's more extensive marking, nearly a decade later, of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. Responsibilities is also of particular interest for its inclusion of a group of poems written about the highly public controversy over the attempts to build a Dublin Modern Art Gallery. Yeats wrote a long, detailed note in 1914 to explain the political background of the poems in this volume. The drafts of the note's sometimes caustic phrasing have survived and are included here.

About this title

About the Author:

William H. O'Donnell is Professor of English at the University of Memphis. He is the author of The Poetry of William Butler Yeats: An Introduction and A Guide to the Prose Fiction of W. B. Yeats and has edited several editions of Yeats's work.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0801441072
• ISBN 13: 9780801441073
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 424
• Editor: O'Donnell William H