Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, Volume III

Yeats, W. B. (William Butler); O'Donnell, William H. (Ed.); Archibald, Douglas N. (Ed.)

ISBN 10: 0684807289 / ISBN 13: 9780684807287

Published by Scribner, U.S.A., 1999

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, Volume III
• Publisher: Scribner, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684807289
• ISBN 13: 9780684807287
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good Plus
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good

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Synopsis

The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats, Volume III: Autobiographies is part of the fourteen-volume series overseen by eminent Yeats scholars Richard J. Finnerah and George Mills Harper. The series includes virtually all of the Nobel laureate's published work, with authoritative and explanatory notes.

Autobiographies consists of six autobiographical works -- Reveries Over Childhood and Youth, The Trembling of the Veil, Dramatis Personae, Estrangement, The Death of Synge, and The Bounty of Sweden -- that William Butler Yeats published together in the mid-1930s to form a single, extraordinary memoir of the first fifty-eight years of his life, from his earliest memories of childhood to winning the Nobel Prize for Literature. This volume provides a vivid series of personal accounts of a wide range of figures, and it describes Yeats's work as poet and playwright, as a founder of Dublin's famed Abbey Theatre, his involvement with Irish nationalism, and his fascination with occultism and visions. This book is most compelling as Yeats's own account of the growth of his poetic imagination. Yeats thought that a poet leads a life of allegory, and that his works are comments upon it. Autobiographies enacts his ruling belief in the connections and coherence between the life that he led and the works that he wrote. It is a vision of personal history as art, and so it is the one truly essential companion to his poems and plays.

Edited by William H. O'Donnell and Douglas N. Archibald, this volume is available for the first time with invaluable explanatory notes and includes previously unpublished passages from candidly explicit first drafts.

About the Author

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.