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

DEFINITIVE: SPLENDID: EXTRAORDINARY: EXQUISITE: COMPELLING: CANONICAL: NEW Second Edition hardcover (Orig. 1997) Fourth Printing: NEAR FINE unclipped mylar-protected jacket showing orig. $40.00 price at top-right inside-front flyleaf w/ sharp AS-NEW edges & corners BUT w/ small tear neatly repaired & reinforced w/ clear archival tape at top spine-cap, AS-NEW cover w/ library-durable black linen wrapping spine & extending 1.36" onto front & back panels covered w/ BEAUTIFUL darkened-teal paper, IMPECCABLE cream-white front & back card-stock end-papers, EXCELLENT unmarked smooth-cut text-block exterior MARRED w/ slightest rust-spotting, AS-NEW sewn binding W/ tight signatures & gold cloth banding at spine-caps, PRISTINE interior handsomely newly-reset in clear Adobe Sabon & printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 5.74" x 8.75" x 1.75", 0.94 kg, xxx+752 (782) pp * CONTENTS: Contents (vii), Preface (xxv), The Poems (1-596), Appendix A: Yeats' Notes in "The Collected Poems" (1933) (599), Notes to Appendix A (609), Appendix B: Music from "New Poems" (1938) (619), Notes to Appendix B (622), Explanatory Notes (623), Textual Notes (723), Index to Titles (733), Index to First Lines (742) * ABOUT THIS EDITION: This DEFINITIVE collection of "The Poems" (Orig. 1989, Second Edition 1997) --the first of the 14 volumes of "The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats"-- provides accurate texts of all the poems by Yeats published in his lifetime or scheduled for publication as of his death on January 28, 1939, including poems omitted from earlier collections. Textual notes provide a full record of the copy-texts employed & any emendations admitted to the poems. This SPLENDID collection reveals the EXTRAORDINARY breadth of Yeats' verse, ranging from skillful retellings of ancient Irish myths & legends to passionate meditations on the demands & rewards of youth & old age. The EXQUISTE, occasionally whimsical songs of love, nature, & art stand in dramatic contrast to the somber & angry poems of life in a nation torn by war & uprising. And, in the rich & recurrent imagery of the rose, the gyre, & the tower, the reader can trace Yeats' quest to unite intellect & artistry in a single COMPELLING vision. Now, more than 80 years after his death, Yeats' verse continues to speak w/ clarity & eloquence through these timeless creations of a master craftsmen. * ABOUT THE EDITOR: Richard J. Finneran served as General Editor w/ George Mills Harper of "The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats" & was editor of "Yeats: An Annual of Critical & Textual Studies". He held the Hodges Chair of Excellence at the University of Tennessee (Knoxville) & published widely in the field of Anglo-Irsih literature. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this splendid book w/ our greatest elegance & care for FREE shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL within the U.S. w/ Domestic USPS PRIORITY MAIL available for a nominal additional fee & shipment of all international orders via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS AIRMAIL at our posted rates. …