The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume VIII: The Irish Dramatic Movement

Gathers the preeminent poet's essays on drama and the movement that led to today's Irish theater, which were written between 1899 and 1919, in a collection that covers such topics as the Abbey Theatre, the plays of John Millington Synge, and the relationship between drama and nationalism.

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. 

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.