The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, Vol. 1: The Poems, 2nd Edition

Finneran, Richard J.

ISBN 10: 0684839350 / ISBN 13: 9780684839356

Published by Scribner, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, Vol. 1: The Poems, 2nd Edition
• Publisher: Scribner
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684839350
• ISBN 13: 9780684839356
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

This is the first of a fourteen-volume edition of Yeats’s work issued under the general editorship of Richard Finneran and George Mills Harper. A necessary read for Yeats devotees, Seamus Heaney writes, “All readers of Yeats will need this book; when they open it they will feel a surprise like that experienced by St. Brendan the Navigator and his crew when they disembarked upon an island that turned out to be the back of a dormant sea monster.”

About the Author

The late Richard J. Finneran was general editor, with George Mills Harper, of The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats for many years; series editor of The Poems in the Cornell Yeats; and editor of Yeats: An Annual of Critical and Textual Studies, among other works. He held the Hodges Chair of Excellence at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville; was a past president of the South Atlantic Modern Language Association; and served as executive director of the Society for Textual Scholarship.

William Butler Yeats is generally considered to be Ireland’s greatest poet, living or dead, and one of the most important literary figures of the twentieth century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923.