Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats: Volume II: 1896-1900 (Yeats Collected Letters Series) - Hardcover

Yeats, W. B.

9780198126829: Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats: Volume II: 1896-1900 (Yeats Collected Letters Series)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198126824 ISBN 13: 9780198126829

Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1998

Seamus Heaney has described The Collected Letters as "one of the great publishing events of the decade." This volume covers a formative period (1896-1900) in Yeats's political career, and the beginning of his theatrical involvement. Letter by letter, Yeats's private concerns, artistic quarrels, and exhausting political life are revealed. Rich and readable notes provide a narrative for these years, explaining allusions, and setting the correspondence in its cultural and political contexts.

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About the Author:

Warwick Gould is Reader in English Literature at the University of London. John Kelly is a Fellow of St John's College, Oxford, and General Editor of the Yeats Letters series. Deirdre Toomey is Research Editor of the Yeats Annual.

From Library Journal:

This is the first of 12 or more volumes of Yeats's correspondence planned for publication over the next decade. Containing some 350 letters, Volume 1 is a comprehensive, meticulous work of scholarship, providing thorough annotations, a chronology of Yeats's life, and a useful biographical and historical appendix. The letters themselves shed light on the life and art of one of the century's greatest poets; they also reveal an intelligent, vital man with a remarkable range of interests. This volume and future volumes in the series will be the definitive edition of Yeats's correspondence, and they belong in any serious modern literature collection. Michael Hennessy, English Dept., Southwest Texas State Univ., San Marcos
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