The Poems Revised (Volume I of The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats)

Collects all of the Nobel laureate's published work and includes additional notes and criticisms.

This is the first of a projected 14-volume edition of Yeats's work issued under the general editorship of Finneran and George Mills Harper. Volume 1 is actually a reissue, slightly revised, of Finneran's The Poems (LJ 1/84). To this latest edition he adds four previously uncollected poems and makes a few minor editorial changes. While The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W.B. Yeats (Macmillan, 1957) remains a standard source for scholars, Finneran's edition is the definitive reading text. And while it adds little new material, this volume (along with those forthcoming) should be part of any serious subject collection.-- Michael Hennessy, Southwest Texas State Univ., San Marcos correction: The Poems of Paul Celan ( LJ 5/15/89) , to have been published in May by Persea Books, will now be published in June.
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