Books by W. B. Yeats

William Butler Yeats, 13.6.1865-28.1.1939, var som irsk forfatter og lyriker splittet mellem det katolske og det protestantiske. Han var en typisk antimaterialist og viede sig politisk til den irske nationalistiske bevægelse1891 kastede Yeats sig over opbygningen af et irsk teater, The Irish Literary Theatre (fra 1904 The Irish National Theatre, med skuespilhuset Abbey Theatre i Dublin), der åbnede i 1899 med hans The Countess Cathleen, og som i 1902 opførte hans nok mest berømte scenestykke Cathleen Ni Houlihan, begge med stof fra en mytisk irsk fortid.

William Butler Yeats, 13.6.1865-28.1.1939, var som irsk forfatter og lyriker splittet mellem det katolske og det protestantiske. Han var en typisk antimaterialist og viede sig politisk til den irske nationalistiske bevægelse1891 kastede Yeats sig over opbygningen af et irsk teater, The Irish Literary Theatre (fra 1904 The Irish National Theatre, med skuespilhuset Abbey Theatre i Dublin), der åbnede i 1899 med hans The Countess Cathleen, og som i 1902 opførte hans nok mest berømte scenestykke Cathleen Ni Houlihan, begge med stof fra en mytisk irsk fortid.

This handsome hardback edition presents Yeat''s enthralling tales from Ireland''s oral history, with delightful illustrations, gilded page edges and a striking gold-embossed cover design. One of Ireland''s greatest writers, the Nobel-prize winner W. B. Yeats was fascinated by the myths and folklore of his native country. Compiled by Yeats in 1892, these stories were collected around the country by a variety of historians, including Lady Wilde, the mother of Oscar Wilde. Within these pages, you''ll discover tales of greedy sons who get their comeuppance, canny priests, evil witches and demons alongside legends of heroic kings, giants and, of course, the good folk themselves - the fairies, the leprechauns and the cluricauns. By turns charming and scary, these are yarns that have passed down through generations and which are still as entertaining and magical as when they were first recalled. This cloth-look hardback edition features beautiful illustrations, ivory pages and patterned endpapers, making a wonderful gift or keepsake for any literature lover. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Arcturus Gilded Classics series presents luxury gift editions of classics works, printed on opulent ivory paper, featuring hardcover Wibilin binding, foil-embossed cover designs, beautifully designed end-papers and gilded page edges. These make perfect collectibles for lovers of classic literature.

?In this catalogue's most perceptive articles some of the finest critical insights about Yeats's work are brilliantly presented. . . . A book no one interested in Yeats should be without.?-English Fiction in Transition

An ethereal collection of long-lost fairy tales and folk stories from Ireland, collated and edited by one of the most sensational Irish poets, W. B. Yeats.This anthology of Irish myths and folklore was first published in 1892 after being carefully collated by W. B. Yeats. The prolific poet had a deep interest in the folkloric history of his country and dedicated part of his career to editing traditional fairy tales and translating them from the original Irish. Irish Fairy and Folk Tales is an illusive collection of beautiful and ghostly stories concerning fairies, changelings, witches, giants, the devil, and the supernatural.The tales featured in this volume are divided between the following sections:- The Trooping Fairies- Changelings- The Merrow- The Solitary Fairies- Ghosts- Witches, Fairy Doctors- T'yeer-Na-N-Oge- Saints, Priests- The Devil- Giants- Kings, Queens, Princesses, Earls, Robbers

The Moon Spun Round takes children of all ages on an imaginative journey through W.B. Yeats's poetry, folktales and childhood writing. Mysterious and beautiful illustrations spin out from Yeats's haunting and enchanted words and rhythms.

The third volume of a three volume edition of the collected papers and notebooks which comprise the "automatic writing" of W.B.Yeats. The material presented here is taken from the writings known as "the sleep and dreams" notebooks, the "vision" notebooks one and two and from Yeats' card files.

Arranged in chronological sequence, The Secret Rose offers a glimpse of all Yeats'' styles-beginning with his youthful romantic idealism and ending with his more outspoken, sardonic treatment of sexuality.

The Cornell Yeats edition of the poetry collection, "Responsibilities," features the only surviving example of Ezra Pound and the author collaboratively revising a poem by Yeats.

This edition includes transcriptions and photographs of the surviving manuscripts of the play, reproductions of Yeats's own notes and revisions, and other materials related to stage productions and the resulting changes he made to the text.

The Cornell Yeats edition gives literatim transcriptions and photographic reproductions of all the holographic materials pertaining to the writing, revising, and rewriting of "The Countess Cathleen" from 1889 to 1934.

The Cornell Yeats edition of "The Winding Stair" brings together transcriptions of all extant manuscript materials for the six poems included in the 1929 volume.

This volume brings together all extant manuscripts of "The Hour-Glass," from a handwritten three-page fragment of the 1902 prose version to Yeats's typescripts of the 1922 verse rendition.

The manuscript materials included in the Cornell Yeats edition of "Diarmuid and Grania" provide a full record of the disputes and revisions that culminated in the final draft of the play, which opened at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin on October 21, 1901.

Yeats's Helmet plays (The Green Helmet, in verse, and its earlier prose version The Golden Helmet) are part of the author's cycle of plays dealing with the life and death of the legendary Irish hero Cuchulain, first conceived in 1907.

This volume of the Cornell Yeats contains manuscript materials for both the prose and verse renditions of "The King of the Great Clock Tower" and all of the drafts that resulted in "A Full Moon in March."